Excuse me, ma'am...but your eye is hanging out

studyinghard said:

How do you guys fix an eyeball that pops out of socket? Is this something that happens often?

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oh yeah, especially when people sneeze hard. Cold season is definitley the busiest time of the year for ophthalmologists.

Mirror Form said:

oh yeah, especially when people sneeze hard. Cold season is definitley the busiest time of the year for ophthalmologists.

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Is that why stock for companies that make superglue skyrocket during cold season?

Happened every year in residency. A first year would go running to the surgical chief saying something like I was doing a dfe, decided to practice scleral depression and the eyeball popped out and the patient was screaming. Senior resident would walk in and say do you have thyroid problems, patient says yes, look in the emr and see they have proptosis, put a drop of proparicaine, gently apply pressure to eye and it's back in. It would always be the joke among the seniors who would be the first year to freak out running to them saying the eye just popped out.