eye am what eye am

a family-friend doctor recommended me another ophthalmologist who seems to be familiar with the procedure, who from his deserted private practice in the run-down part of town seems to be on the verge of retirement. mr doctor however seems to have no intention whatsoever to carry out the operation. hmmm mmmm, ya ya, ok ok, go back to your ophthalmologist. doctor's decency code not to steal others patients of some kind perhaps? his description of the procedure sounded like it was from several decades back; using a piece of bone from my thigh somewhere to patch up the fractured area...... a little too barney and flintstone for me. he didn't offer, i didn't push. 

the same doctor friend later recommended that i look up a facial maxillary surgeon. oral and facial maxillary deals mainly with injuries and defects in the neck, face, jaw, tissues of the oral and facial area, starting out as a dentist for most of them before further specialising in this field. i am not saying that all facial maxillary surgeon do not know how to perform the operation but i will very much prefer someone who is also trained as an eye doctor so that my eye will be given priority and well taken care of. i really hate walking on planks and wearing ruffled shirts. i tried to tell him, i need a good oculoplastic but hard to tell, i think i could have been talking to a wall. he wanted a team of doctors to perform the surgery: an ophthalmologist, a nerve doctor, a facial maxillary surgeon and a GA. all this somewhere across the causeway. a bit crowded in the operating theatre you think? maybe some will be munching on the popcorn whilst others reach for the coke for a bit of refreshment. i want just one. oculoplastic. an eye doctor who specialises in surgery of the orbit. an all in one package. sigh. how do you subtly intimate to another person who is a doctor that his medical opinion is err... misguided and archaic, especially when he is senior to you. well, with hands fidgeting and fretting, you really don't. whilst he is a very good doctor in his own field, it is almost impossible for a doctor to be up-to-date with every procedure that is known to every single part of the body. we are talking millions probably and mine is such a raw odd-case one that even i am having difficulty locating the specialist for it. what he knows is what he had learnt text-book style many eons ago and what i know is what i have thoroughly googled in the last week through countless updated medical websites and research theses of specialists in the field. that said, i still respected his opinion for there are so many medical things that he knows about the body which i probably have never heard of. again, i took his kindness and sincerity from all that.