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(26,837 posts)He told me that several disorders can be diagnosed or suspected in eye exams. As he put it, the eye is the mirror of the body, not just the "soul" as poets say.
He said that he could tell things like when a woman was pregnant even if her pregnancy was not yet visible.
I have an autoimmune disorder that was discovered after an eye doctor told me, following an exam, that I needed to see an internist for a complete physical because there was something systemic that was causing my blurred vision. She did not know what the specific cause was, but she knew that my vision had changed too much in just one year for an adult. She suspected diabetes bc it exists in.my family. She was not far off. It is not diabetes, which is also an autoimmune disorder, but mine can show up in families where diabetes is present.
So an eye specialist would know if more was going on with Trump than vision problems.
Disorders in one system can show symptoms in other systems of the body. That's why a doctor will suspect something in a physical and refer a patient to a different specialist.
Trump's 22 doctors are all most likely aware of other medical issues in him besides their own specialties.