Resolve To Do Better
The New Year is a little over a two weeks old. How many have kept their New Year’s Resolutions? Something tells me there are a very small number of people out there who haven’t tossed aside their resolutions at this point. Yes, it is noble to take steps to do better in life, and people […]
Diabetes Management for Good Vision and Good Health
The Centers for Disease Control estimates that by 2050, one in three Americans will have diabetes. One thing that diabetic patients need to do is monitor their glucose levels (AKA blood sugar). Being vigilant about glucose levels isn’t easy and can have a person with diabetes wondering if all the trouble is worth it. Well, […]
Finding What Works & Doing More of It
Usually an optometrist who wants to own a practice takes a business course or two, just before he or she graduates from school. Of course, some things never change in business, such as needing to make a profit and having an actual product or service to provide consumers. Still, you have to adapt to changing […]
Rephrase the Jargon for Greater Comprehension
Recently, we were approached by a doctor at the 2016 American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) conference with a request to create a model that would explain the causes of dry eye, as well as how it is diagnosed and treated. You can learn more about the model here. Of course, the medical […]
Optometry as a Second Act
When I worked at a college of optometry, the vast majority of students were in their 20’s. Most of their stories were similar: They went straight from a bachelor degree program to the school where I worked. Most didn’t even take a gap year. However, there were a few students who were returning to school […]
Contacts and Diabetes
According to the American Diabetes Association, in 2012 there were over 29 million Americans with diabetes. Of these 29 million, many are contact lenses wearers. In the past, contacts were not recommended to patients with diabetes. Now contacts are recommended to diabetics as an vision option. Yet, optometrists need to be on the lookout for […]
The Good Ol’ Days Weren’t Always Good
“When I was starting out…” “Back then, we did things differently. For example…” “We didn’t have (insert tech device here) in the 19 (insert decade here) and we got the job done just fine.” Who hasn’t heard statements like those many times over the course of a lifetime? It’s enough to make you think that […]
Vision and Concussions
For many years, concussions weren’t considered a serious injury. As long as a person didn’t lose consciousness and recovered from other related injuries, whether the injuries be from a tackle in football or a fall from a skateboard, concussions were no big deal. Now with advanced diagnostic imaging such as MRI and CAT scan, as […]
Do Your Procedures Lead to Profits?
Remember when you were in medical school or optometry school and you learned the importance of following treatment protocols? These protocols have been tested over and over and have been proven to produce good outcomes. For example, testing for cataracts and glaucoma in the course of an eye exam leads to the discovery of those […]
Anti-VEGFs Produce Good Outcomes
The number of people who will become visually impaired in the U.S. is expected to be 8 million. In addition to that, another 16 million will have difficulty seeing due to refractive errors such as myopia (nearsightedness) or hyperopia (farsightedness) that can be corrected with glasses or contacts. In 2015, 3.2 million Americans had vision […]