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#5...Just What in the Heck is So Funny About the Eye Chart? It happens to me every day that I see patients. In fact, it happens every half day that I see patients. And it makes absolutely no sense to me. I realize that I don’t break rocks for a living and that I have no right whatsoever to complain but it drives me a little crazy. I’ll set the scene for you… I enter the examination room and greet the patient. Review some history and find out the main reason they are visiting me today. Then I hand them the cover paddle (see #10 for the fiasco that is the cover paddle) and say “OK, cover your left eye. Not that left eye, the other left eye. There you go. Now, read the lowest line that you can barely make out on that (me pointing to the chart) chart for me.” Then it happens; inexplicably and inevitably it happens. Laughter. I really don’t get it. I’ve tried to rationalize why someone might laugh when asked to read the eye chart but I can’t get my brain around it. Maybe the fact that I am 20/10 (OK, OK, with some modest age gains I am 20/15) uncorrected. Maybe the blurred letters are funny. Do they look like a naked George Costanza dancing with pineapples? Maybe the fuzzy letters look like swear words – I know swear words always make me giggle like a school girl. Or, perhaps, patients are just recalling a hilarious Ziggy cartoon about an acuity chart. I don’t know and I don’t think I will ever figure it out. Le Meas,
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Justin Bazan, OD
Park Slope Eye
John Warren, OD
Warren Eye Care
Dickson Chen, OD, FAAO
High Definition Vision
Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD
Bright Eyes Family Vision Care
