Wow. I've had doctors like that in the past, and I hate it.
He is really a nice guy but totally overworked. Thing is in our whole region we have all of two eye specialists and both are full, that is they don't take on new patients anymore. They can't as they're overworked as it is. I have been with mine (or his mother before him) since I was a baby.
Because I live in a country region very few doctors want to come and open practices here. It's becoming quite a problem.
What's funny at my current doctor's, though, is the way he does exams. I start reading the rows of numbers with my good, right, eye and then I have to do the same with my left one but it's the same numbers. And he is astonished when I'm reading more fluently wth my "bad" eye. Dude, I can memorize a couple of numbers for five whole seconds. Teehee.
My glasses usually cost about $500 or even a little more, which is very expensive. I don't know if anyone could vacation for that much, though.
From Germany you could go for a week to Mallorca (our little Spanish party island) for that. Not that I would want to but it's mindboggling considering you have to put all that amount of money down for a single item.
But I'm looking forward to my new glasses. My old ones are still nice but the actual glasses have become so scratched, I always see specks through them now.
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Date: 2008-12-18 03:21 pm (UTC)He is really a nice guy but totally overworked. Thing is in our whole region we have all of two eye specialists and both are full, that is they don't take on new patients anymore. They can't as they're overworked as it is. I have been with mine (or his mother before him) since I was a baby.
Because I live in a country region very few doctors want to come and open practices here. It's becoming quite a problem.
What's funny at my current doctor's, though, is the way he does exams. I start reading the rows of numbers with my good, right, eye and then I have to do the same with my left one but it's the same numbers. And he is astonished when I'm reading more fluently wth my "bad" eye. Dude, I can memorize a couple of numbers for five whole seconds. Teehee.
My glasses usually cost about $500 or even a little more, which is very expensive. I don't know if anyone could vacation for that much, though.
From Germany you could go for a week to Mallorca (our little Spanish party island) for that. Not that I would want to but it's mindboggling considering you have to put all that amount of money down for a single item.
But I'm looking forward to my new glasses. My old ones are still nice but the actual glasses have become so scratched, I always see specks through them now.