‘My eyes flew out of my head’: A GP’s encounter with a patient who saw yellow

Dr David Ringleblum says it was the only time he referred back to his undergraduate pharmacology textbook.
Dr David Ringelblum

Dr David Ringelblum was working as a GP in Melbourne in the late 1990s when a patient turned up with yellow vision.

“This woman was probably around 30 and came in to see me saying, ‘I just feel generally unwell, and everything looks a bit hazy and yellow,’” Dr Ringelblum says.