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An 82-Year-Old Woman With Cataracts
Stephen A. Obstbaum, MD
JAMA. 1996;275(21):1675-1680.
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Dr Delbanco: Mrs K is an 82-year-old widowed former seamstress with poor vision secondary to bilateral cataracts. She lives with her daughter and extended family in a suburb of Boston, Mass. In 1977 she came to the United States from Haiti. She receives her primary care at the Beth Israel Hospital from a general internist and a nurse practitioner, Ms M, and speaks only Haitian Creole. She has Medicare without supplemental insurance.
Mrs K was first seen as a patient in 1977, and at that time she was found to have bilateral cataracts. She has complained of poor vision throughout the years and has sought help from a physician for her vision during some of her frequent trips back to Haiti. During 1 of these visits, she was given potassium iodide eyedrops. In the fall of 1995, Mrs K complained of blurriness and a clear watery discharge in her left
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Footnotes
Dr Obstbaum is director of the Department of Ophthalmology, Lenox Hill Hospital, and professor of clinical ophthalmology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY.
This conference took place at the Ophthalmology/Gerontology Grand Rounds of the Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass, on February 27, 1996.
Reprint requests to Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Hospital, 330 Brookline Ave, LY339, Boston, MA 02215 (Ms Walzer).
Clinical Crossroads at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital is produced and edited by Thomas L. Delbanco, MD, and Jennifer Daley, MD; Janet Walzer, MEd, is managing editor. Clinical Crossroads section editor: Margaret A. Winker, MD, Senior Editor, JAMA.
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