So you want to be a... Eye Doctor

In this episode of So You Want to Be a…, Max and Calvin explore what it’s really like to be an eye doctor! They learn how eye doctors examine your eyes, figure out why some people need glasses, and use special tools to look all the way to the retina and optic nerve. Plus, they uncover some unbelievable true stories, including a contact lens stuck inside an eyelid for 28 years, a piece of wood that stayed in someone’s eye for 15 years, and an eye surgeon who performed more than 600,000 eye operations during his career. From eye exams and dilating drops to some truly strange discoveries, there’s a lot more to your eyes than you might think!