"Medical Miracle Of Biblical Proportion: Kosher Meat-packer Gets His Vision Back After Knife Accident" - Brittany Kriegstein
Father-of-six Joseph Goldstein, 29, a supervisor at a kosher meat processing plant in Sunset Park, recalled his April 29 injury as more frightening than anything else. "Everything went black like an old TV. I didn’t know if I would see again.” Goldstein went to see Ronald Gentile, MD, FACS, FASRS, director of the Ocular Trauma Service at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai. “When I saw him, I knew there was a chance to do something because I knew his optic nerve wasn’t cut and he could see light. It’s about knowing which millimeters count and which millimeters don’t.” According to Richard Koplin, MD, founder of the eye trauma service at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, “It looked like a black eight ball with all the hemorrhaging. I didn’t think this eye would survive. This case is probably the biggest surprise I’ve seen from a patient.”
— Ronald C. Gentile, MD, FACS, FASRS, Professor, Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director, Ocular Trauma Service, Surgeon director, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
— Richard Koplin, MD, Clinical Professor, Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Co-Director, Cataract Division, Founder, New York Eye and Ear Trauma Service, Founder, Director, Computer Science Bio Engineering Department, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai