Reply #15: Interesting story: dermatologist vs. ophthalmologist. [View All]

A few days before my dermatology exam, before I knew about the little cancer on my lower right eyelid,I went to an ophthalmologist.
The very same lower eyelid was itchy and puffy.
He examined it, VERY CLOSELY, and said a couple of little oil ducts were blocked. Gave me some antibiotic eye drops.
No mention at all of that red bump.

So, a few days later,when the dermatologist said it looked like a basal cell and biopsied it, and, in fact, it WAS a basal cell carcinoma, I thought about the ophthalmologist. Shouldn't he have...um...NOTICED it and said maybe I should get it looked at by a dermatologist?

I put the question to the derma guy.
"Well, the ophthalmologist is an MD. He's a doctor. Yeah, I think he should have noticed it and told you to see a dermatologist. I think I'd get another ophthalmologist."
Done.

Boy, you gotta watch 'em all the time.
:-(