“Seeing” is believing

“Your next batch of students arrive tomorrow,” the administrator told me, “and one of them has a visual impairment.”

It turned out that 20 years previously he had had retinitis pigmentosa diagnosed, and by the time he joined medical school he was registered blind. My colleagues were sceptical about his choice of profession, and we pondered how best to deal with this situation and what impact his presence would have on the rest of the team and the patients. …