The GOC disciplinary committee hearing, reported in last week's edition (News, October 24), involved optometrist Eunice Wolfson who was alleged to have failed to give a patient an adequate examination.
As reported last week, the patient Ð 58-year-old Eileen Woods Ð told the hearing that she was given a non-urgent referral following the April 2002 examination. She remained concerned about her sight and shortly after went to the Royal Liverpool Hospital where a consultant ophthalmic surgeon diagnosed a detached retina and ordered immediate surgery.
During the two-day hearing, the consultant, Dr David Wong said he had found no signs of an in-growing eyelash. However, expert witness for the defence, Professor Geoff Woodward (City University emeritus professor), told the hearing that the symptoms involved in an in-growing eyelash were almost identical to those caused through a detached retina.
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