Article in The Times

[John Smith]

This article about KC appeared in Saturday's Times.

Read the article.

[jayuk]

excellent article!...thanks for that....

[Amarpal]

Yup, great article there.
I feel I can relate to the article slightly. Before I had keratoconus, I was aiming to apply to study dentistry at university. However, like this man, I have become so interested in opthalmology, I have reconsidered and will be applying to study medicine instead. I am always reading articles from the BMJ etc about various opthalmology related issues, which has influenced my change of course. I do understand though that I may chose not to do opthalmology in the end- after all there is such a great variety of choiuce in medicine.
But just now, all I need to worry about is getting the right grades for my highers!

[Andrew MacLean]

Thanks John

Good article. Good to find good press.

Andrew

[brigid downing]

Thank you for posting that John - a very interesting read.

Only a few days ago I was talking with friends and family about childhood ambition and I was reminded that I always said I was going to be a surgeon. I laughed and said it was just as well I followed a different path as the thought of having to explain to a patient that I needed to reopen their wound to retrieve a possible lost contact lens was not a good one.

It is very encouraging to read of one person who has been able to follow that dream though.

Brigid

ps. the reason I chose primary school teaching, rather that medicine, was more to do with A level results than KC!

[Louise Pembroke]

Lovely article

[Michael P]

Very interesting John.

As I can't even drill a hole small enough to take a raw plug, somehow I don't think I would have made a very good eye surgeon!

[Prue B]

Great article.

At the Aus KC seminar on cross linking I went to, I was sitting next to an optometrist with KC. His father was an optometrist who specialised in fitting leses to kcers, and that is what he did, then he discovered he had KC.

[Andrew MacLean]

All medical students with KC who feel oppressed by the FTP policy of their med school ought to take this article and pin it to their Dean's door!

[Vic]

All medical students with KC who feel oppressed by the FTP policy of their med school ought to take this article and pin it to their Dean's door!

Yes!! Especially as they are in the middle of changing FTP to make it even more stringent than it is already (if you ever thought that could be possible...). It's a sign of how things have changed that the guy in the article managed to make it all the way through vet school and most of the way through medical school unhindered by over-zealous FTP committees. My corneal surgeon has told me that I will not be able to do surgery as a career, but it's really interesting to find someone who's managed to persue a successful career doing such detailed surgery, having had visual difficulties themselves.

I am oh-so-tempted to stick this article to the Dean's door