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Blind man sees wife for first time after having a tooth implanted into his eye
- GiraffeNecktie 17y agoI think they talked about this in the Bible: something about an eye for a tooth and a tooth for an eye.
- asdlfj2sd33 17y ago15 points? This is currently the top comment on a medical breakthrough restoring sight? This is why I left Slashdot.
- Herring 17y agoyeah like the other comments are better. One guy wants to see the wife, the other thinks this makes programming look trivial, etc Surgeons don't post here & we wouldn't understand them anyway. Gimme a funny comment any day.
- wglb 17y agoOr, he gave his eyetooth to see again.
- jrockway 17y agoBy that time he had already spent eight years without his sight after a tub of white hot aluminium exploded in his face at work in a scrapyard. This is why you should always wear safety goggles.
- burke 17y agoWhile true, suggesting safety goggles as a guard against exploding white-hot aluminum just makes me think of that goggles meme. What was it again?...
- jrockway 17y agoI assume there is something higher-grade than chemistry-lab splash goggles for this. There must be some protective equipment available for people working with white-hot aluminum. Nobody should have to do a job that can lead to blindness.
- sho 17y ago"Nobody should have to do a job that can lead to blindness." I agree. Yet in our society, where efficiency must often be balanced against safety, risk cannot be fully eliminated. Council workers would surely be safer if the roads they repaired were closed for the duration, but we cannot stomach the roads being fully closed. Furniture movers would certainly suffer less chance of back injury if there were four men lifting that dresser instead of two, yet no-one would hire them if their prices doubled. And the aluminium smelter might well be able to significantly reduce its injury rate by investing billions in a new process, but the product would no longer be viable and the factory would close, simply moving the risk to a less caring jurisdiction. One can continue like this all day. There's always a compromise, and most developed countries have settled upon a sweet spot. Workplace injury declines with advancing technology, and we should certainly do our best to minimise it, but while society values economic competitiveness over absolute personal safety, you can never eliminate risk, and maybe not even then.
- jacquesm 17y agoYou'd be surprised how many jobs can lead to injuries, including blindness. I met a piano tuner with only one eye one day. He was tuning a grand piano, overstressed the string, it broke and the little loop at the end of it was shot off straight into his eye... I'll bet you he never thought that piano tuning can lead to blindness either.
- jrockway 17y agoI'm beginning to take the notes that say "always wear safety glasses" on nearly every tool more seriously.
- jmatt 17y agoSmart idea using the tooth to prevent rejection. So now I'm curious. I want to see his wife...
- josefresco 17y agoshhh don't tell asdlfj2sd33 about this comment (it'll set him over the edge)
- proee 17y agoThis is why surgeons get paid the big bucks. Makes the average programming job look pretty trivial...
- asdlfj2sd33 17y agoUnless you're both a surgeon and a programmer you probably shouldn't make sweeping statements like that. I'm just a programming but I think a large portion of the bucks surgeons make is due to the expense and duration of medical school.
- josefresco 17y agoAnd the fact that they work directly to save/improve/alter life whereas great software projects tend to be somewhat disconnected from the actual life saving thereby making their authors somewhat removed from that 'thing' that allows doctors to charge the big bucks.
- asdlfj2sd33 17y agoYou know there's a lot of medical software right? And I'm not just talking about record keeping. What do you think most high end medical and scientific instruments run on?
- 10ren 17y agoYou implant the skin in the eye and after two months "it acquires a blood supply". Surgeons and doctors do great work, and especially in this article, but they deal in stuff that heals itself. From an technologist's point of view, I say it's indistinguishable from magic. No such force assists the programmer.
- keltecp11 17y agoI'm still confused why they would use a 'tooth' oppose to something else...
- jrockway 17y agoYes, I would like to read something more informative than the Daily Mail summary.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoI'm guessing teeth can join well to flesh without rejection (mine seem good on this anyway) and also don't reject implanting foreign matter (filings, those little diamonds chavs^W people have, etc.) they're basically a bridging medium; an interstitial that avoids rejection.
- gojomo 17y agoI hear that among some goths, a snapshot through a human-tooth-mounted lens is the most desired MySpace Angle of all.
- stuffthatmatter 17y ago...and then he said 'ahhhh! I'm blind!'
- stuffthatmatter 17y agoI got modded down? Jeez you guys have no humor. Slashdot's way better
- theblackbox 17y agoWhile from this thread alone this may look like slashdot, the community happens to put a much higher emphasis on _conversation_ rather than praising an individuals wit. At the risk of being down modded myself for not contributing to the thread I just thought it might be worth pointing that out and reminding those that seem to have voted on this particular thread as though the emphasis was on humour. I'm not exactly one to throw the first stone, as my karma/comments/submissions are far from exemplary, but I do try to stay in keeping with the ideals of the community.
- abossy 17y agoIronically, two of the first three comments on this thread are hilarious. Sad, but I guess every community has its breaking point.
- craigs 17y agoI actually like a bit of humour; when applied correctly it can accentuate the gist of an item and throw into sharp relief what the "community" really thinks. In this case: facinating story, but, come on, it's from the "Daily Mail". Humour, quite simply, is required.
- beefman 17y agoI wish there were more Weekly World News links on HN.
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