{"id":310,"date":"2009-11-23T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T08:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=310"},"modified":"2009-11-23T08:20:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T08:20:01","slug":"of-mice-and-elderly-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2009\/11\/23\/of-mice-and-elderly-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Mice and Elderly Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.va.gov\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-549\" title=\"2009.11.22\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/2009.11.22.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Today, I caught a glimpse of a mouse scuttling across the floor in clinic. This was the second I&#8217;ve seen (or was it the same one?) since starting my rotation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.va.gov\/\">VA Eye Clinic<\/a>. Being away from my home institution has opened my eyes to the world of community ophthalmology. Here, patients are complex, confused, cantankarous, and cataractous. The clinic is run by a small staff, all of whom assume multiple roles. I, for example, am an ophthalmologist-general practitioner-technician-optician-secretary. In the past 2 weeks, I&#8217;ve learned tricks like using a needle driver to remove corneal sutures when there&#8217;re no jewelers forceps, or how to hit things a certain way to get them to work &#8211; the stapler, the printer cartridge, the indirect ophthalmoscope. The perk is being able to take call from home, which until last week had been a foreign concept to me. It gave me the chance to attend a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bar_and_Bat_Mitzvah\">Bat Mitzvah<\/a> (the female version of a Bar Mitzvah) for the very first time &#8211; surprising since I grew up in Brooklyn. It would have been more interesting if we had known Hebrew, but the dinner party was pretty posh. Nevertheless, we opted for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tanjoreharvardsq.com\/\">Indian food<\/a> for a friend&#8217;s birthday before joining the celebration and dancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I caught a glimpse of a mouse scuttling across the floor in clinic. This was the second I&#8217;ve seen (or was it the same one?) since starting my rotation at the VA Eye Clinic. Being away from my home &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2009\/11\/23\/of-mice-and-elderly-men\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}