Modern medicine isn't all ethical dillemas and pharma/insurance exploitation. It's also about getting your medical records as a JPEG on a CD!

This is a picture of my eyeballs -- I guess to be more accurate, my retinas. I went to my eye doctor's appointment to get dialated and to get examed as last year the doctor found a small blind spot in checking my peripheral vision, and then observed a spot on my retina. A referral to a opthamologist confirmed it was nothing to worry about (perhaps it's fairly common?), but to monitor it every year. So here is a shot, straight on, taken with a big white machine (click for more detail):

On my right eye, way way over at nine o'clock is the vitreous tuft -- it looks like a cannoli (click on the image for a bigger view):


Or maybe like a submarine swimming around the corner of the inky depths of ocean. Or a microbe on a giant grape.

Just had to share. I think it's cool I can have pictures of my body. Proctologist, anyone?