PHILADELPHIA – As a resident training at Wills Eye Hospital, George Spaeth was perplexed by a seven-year-old patient’s symptoms.
Her legs angled inward, her hair was straw-colored with an odd consistency, and she had intellectual disabilities.
She had come in for faulty vision caused by her lenses – the part of the eye that enables vision by focusing light – becoming loose. Spaeth’s job was to simply prepare her for surgery to remove her lenses…