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In the previous article, David Samuel Barr wrote:
> [For reasons you'll see in my comments afterward, it was a stunning
> surprise when I only got this news yesterday from one of my other
> ophthalmologists, not from the family or the hospital at the time.]
My old friend[1] M_______ G______, M.D., an eye surgeon in Minnesota
(perhaps you know him?) sent me this when I asked him if he knew
Shields by reputation:
[1] In both senses.
I see patients all the time after somewhere between 1 and 10
others have seen them and haven't come up with a diagnosis. Of
course, I am, with all modesty, perfect and never wrong[2], but
when I see them I put the puzzle together, sometimes the moment I
walk through the door and look at them. If I don't figure things
out (some things remain a mystery) or the patient wants another
opinion, I will refer them for a second opinion to Mayo. They
might ask why not the U of M, and I tell them everyone, no matter
how capable, is fallible and can't be all things to all people, so
everyone has someone else they refer the mysteries or difficult
ones. I say if I see a melanoma in the eye I refer to the U of M
because there's a lot of travel involved. If they want another
opinion they refer to Mayo. If they want another opinion they
refer to Jerry Shields in Philadelphia. If he wants another
opinion he refers to his wife Carol. After that they probably know
someone who they trust in China or something.
[2] M_______ was being ironic here, though I expect he knows he is
very, very competent.
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