[nfbwatlk] eye exams for doctors

[debby phillips]

Mary Ellen, I think that's all well and good for certain types of 
physicians, but a radiologist?  That's their main job to look at 
x rays, and mammmography screenings, etc.  That isn't something 
that you can touch to know.  I would have no trouble going to a 
blind physician if he/she was an internal medicine doc, a family 
practice doc, or something like that.  But I'd be upset if I 
found out that a radiologist who had impaired vision had read and 
mis-diagnosed breast cancer that I had, if that were ever to 
happen.  Now if some technology is invented that would make a 
"sound" for x rays and mammography screens, that would be 
different.  I'm not ready nor are trucks equipped, for blind 
truck drivers on the road yet, either.  We do need to use some 
common sense here.    Peace,    Debby