Move over, Rodgers and Hammerstein! A new songwriting duo has emerged! Mel Schrier, O.D., and Len Rand, O.D., share a little ditty that they wrote during pathology class at Columbia University School of Optometry in 1948. Oh Glaucoma! (Sung to the tune of Oh glaucoma, when you see rainbows around a light, Where the tensions high, pain in the eye, And you wake up screaming in the night! Oh glaucoma, where you get a cupping of the disc, A scotoma grows, the vision goes, And an operations still a risk! Your dark adaptation is slow, and your anterior chamber shallow, And if you say yip-i-yip-i-yip-i-yay, Youve got a case of glaucoma; see the doctor today! Drs. Schrier and Rand both went on to have successful optometric careers. Dr. Schrier practiced in
As we were taught the symptoms of glaucoma, the hit show on Broadway was
And so, heres the newest old optometric smash hit, Oh, Glaucoma! by Drs. Mel Schrier and Len Rand.
Both doctors have since retired from active practice. Dr. Schrier is the president of the Columbia University Optometry Alumni Association and lives in