Year: 1992 Source: JAMA, v.267, no.10, (March 11, 1992), p.1328 SIEC No: 19920216

This article describes the physician-patient relationship in the case of a 70-year-old man in a nursing home with 2 large ripe cataracts who initially had refused to let anyone work onhis eyes, saying that maybe his blindness was God’s plan. Finally, he agreed to a cataract operation. As his vision returned he became argumentative & complained about his environment. A month after the operation, he died by suicide, a sleeping pill overdose. The suicide note said, “Only God can give us light.”