Nah, I’m a comprehensive ophthalmologist–the eye equivalent of a general internist. If I’m not mistaken, that trial is being conducted exclusively via Retina specialists. (Will be awesome if it pans out–as of this moment, our effective treatments for GA amount to bupkis.)
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I’ve never met ED, but the ophthalmologists I’ve had the opportunity to work with have generally been more chill than what I’ve seen from other specialists. This includes both the private practice and university docs.
Not sure why that is, but once I meet a few more dermatologists, anesthesiologists and radiologists I’ll begin speculating.
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Ahh, I see you. Consider yourself lucky; they’re the Sponsor’s priority studies for 2017 and are replete with all the atypical demands and expectations one would expect from such high-profile endeavors.
I was going to offer my condolences for the next 8 months, but alas.
When you have razor-sharp instruments inside the eye of an awake pt, in a space measuring ~6x6 mm (roughly the volume of the anterior chamber of the eye, delimited by the margin of a dilated pupil), it’s in everyone’s interest for you to keep your cool.
As an aside, us eye dentists also tend to be OCD. Look for it and you’ll see.
Speaking of awake pts, funny story: When I was a first-year resident, I was assisting on a corneal transplant. The attending was tying the sutures, and I was cutting the threads. On one knot, I cut too high, leaving the tails about a millimeter too long (which is a lot). As I cut it long, I reflexively said “Oops!” The attending leaned away from the operating microscope, gave me an ‘Are you an idiot?’ look, and dryly said, “Don’t say ‘oops.’”
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Literally the reason I’m putting off LASIK for a few more years – the margin for error is just so damn small. I wanna let eye tracker technology get a few more “oops” in before I trust them to compensate for whatever twitches might occur.
Though you seem much more composed nowadays, your story did remind me of this:
“Cancer? Get outta here! What are you, nuts?”
Thanks, I’m going to work on that.
These days, I work primary with cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons. The cardiologists are actually WAY more chill than the CT surgeons (some are OK, but some hit every checkbox on the list of “awful doctor stereotypes”). I also work with a few anesthesiologists, and they’re very chill. In my previous job, the OB/GYN and oncology folks were generally very cool people as well.
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I heard dat! Man, those guys (and gals) were abusive when I was a med student on their service.
The stories I hear from acquaintances who went through med school and are in residency, or are nurses, or are now MDs makes me believe that I would have the shortest med student career of all time. I have a very short trigger for someone who treats me with disrespect for no reason. I’ve hated bullies my whole life, I surmise I would be out of there in a jiffy after stepping up to one.
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Sounds like all the naive posters on here who strongly deny the perverted influence of money.
For those who’ve made fun of regeneration. Here is theoretical physicist Michio Kako’s statement on the matter. 6. Aged Body Parts Will Be Replaced
Diseased and old body parts will be replaced just as we now replace auto parts. Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase “organ failure” will disappear.
So there you have it.
Well, that sure convinced me.
Michio Kako is a theoretical physicist and a futurist. He made what is essentially a prediction about the future much like sci-fi authors have been writing about for decades. He did not say we can do wholesale replacements now, and this relates to your specific arguments in this thread exactly zero percent.
Further, you don’t think the pharma companies would be salivating at the thought of patenting organ replacement therapies? They would have huge incentive to be on the leading edge.
Also, nobody was or is making fun of replacement. Theyre saying it’s not-quite-ready-for-primetime right now in the form of stem cell therapy for a variety of problems.
I don’t expect you to be convinced. Results don’t even convince you.
The irony of this statement…
Explaining this to you is about as effective as talking to a wall, but for anyone else reading the thread: I’m happy to be convinced by real scientific results, not StemCellMedicine.com results of people proclaiming success. I have, several times, taken apart your attempts to provide said results. Let’s go to the tape:
Got any more “Results” for me?
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So it doesn’t matter that organs like the bladder have already been replaced? Is that a prediction? Along with the other parts that have been replaced.
“his relates to your specific arguments in this thread exactly zero percent.” It is closely related.
I have not said stem cells were available and can help every ailment. But it is already happening in various countries and the U.S. is lagging behind. So people leave this country to get help that they cannot get here. Instead of letting people choose they just let them suffer. Why? Animals can have the treatment. http://www.vet-stem.com/ They can have ailments treated with this therapy but humans have to suffer.
Kako’s passage was talking specifically about growing new organs and replacing your old one with one newly grown from your own cells. Is that a reality in surgical treatment currently?
I am going to be supremely disappointed if you come up with some schlock like the neobladder, which while very helpful in place of a colostomy bag is NOT grown from the patient’s own cells but is a graft of intestinal tissue.
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Wrong again. For someone who’s in the business you don’t know a lot. Dr. Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University has replaced bladders in 30 people already with tissue engineering with their own tissue cells. Get educated and look it up.
Dr. Atala is indeed doing some great work. You may want to read this:
http://discovermagazine.com/2015/march/13-the-doctor-and-the-salamander
But Atala explains that doing it once isn’t enough.
“This is science,” he says, “and it needs to be reliable and reproducible. Doing it once is important because it proves it’s possible. But we need to be able to get this process down so it’s a success virtually every time.”
The printer enables Atala to scale up the technology, eliminating the time it takes to create new organs by hand and the possibility of human error. Yet the printer is nowhere near as important as the schematic it follows — the bank of knowledge built by research teams. Right now that bank still needs shoring up. “It could be,” he says, “that creating entire organs in a way that is reproducible may prove too difficult.”
Yes more research needs d but just trying to insinuate that ust Kako just ust made that stuff up because he is a futurist is absolutely not true as it already has been done more than once. Fuck spell check. It is making my life miserable.