Eclipse dizziness floods Madrid hospital emergency rooms
Dizziness linked to the eclipse is filling Madrid's emergency rooms. Real optic nerve damage or just an excuse for sick leave?
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'Eclipsitis' is already filling Madrid's emergency rooms
Did you watch the eclipse without certified glasses? Then get ready for a dizzy spell, a sick note and a new word: eclipsitis. Since the phenomenon, Madrid's emergency rooms have been flooded with patients suffering vertigo, and the unofficial diagnosis already has defenders and detractors.
Antiestéticar for the optic nerve or the antiestéticar business
On the alarmist side, the message is blunt: dizziness means optic nerve damage, with slow and pogre blindness lurking behind it. On the sceptical side, people recall that the last great collective scare, the face masks, ended up as a windfall for panic sellers. Somewhere in between, the calmest account comes from someone affected: dizziness at 20:05, three glances of less than seven seconds, and perfect vision the next day.
Sick leave for chronic eclipsitis
The sick note has become the comic highlight of the day: a patient who saw nothing, a request for leave until the 16th to link up with holidays, and an express demand that it be recorded as "chronic eclipsitis". Absenteeism thus has a new back-of-an-envelope diagnosis. Meanwhile, the heat is on: the low in Madrid was 25 degrees, a classic rival for fainting without blaming the sun.
Retina intact or not, the eclipse has left something more than spots in our eyes: a first-class work excuse.
Did you watch the eclipse without certified glasses? Then get ready for a dizzy spell, a sick note and a new word: eclipsitis. Since the phenomenon, Madrid's emergency rooms have been flooded with patients suffering vertigo, and the unofficial diagnosis already has defenders and detractors.
Antiestéticar for the optic nerve or the antiestéticar business
On the alarmist side, the message is blunt: dizziness means optic nerve damage, with slow and pogre blindness lurking behind it. On the sceptical side, people recall that the last great collective scare, the face masks, ended up as a windfall for panic sellers. Somewhere in between, the calmest account comes from someone affected: dizziness at 20:05, three glances of less than seven seconds, and perfect vision the next day.
Sick leave for chronic eclipsitis
The sick note has become the comic highlight of the day: a patient who saw nothing, a request for leave until the 16th to link up with holidays, and an express demand that it be recorded as "chronic eclipsitis". Absenteeism thus has a new back-of-an-envelope diagnosis. Meanwhile, the heat is on: the low in Madrid was 25 degrees, a classic rival for fainting without blaming the sun.
Retina intact or not, the eclipse has left something more than spots in our eyes: a first-class work excuse.
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