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To dilate or not? Tips4EyeDocs Daily for 01/11/2012 – No. 23
FROM THE EDITOR: As often as the sun rises and sets, there will always be a frank and open discussion of the dilated eye examination. For many, it is a “line-in-the-sand” where a patient could be denied care if the … Continue reading
Posted in Practice Management
Tagged Diabetes, Dilated Eye Examination, Glaucoma, ophthalmology, Optometry, Retina, Retinopathy
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Tips4EyeDocs – Weekend Edition – The Power of Intention – No. 14 for 31Dec11/01Jan12
FROM THE EDITOR The New Year is fast approaching and 2012 is very much around the corner. Do you have 2012 predictions or resolutions? Why do we make them when we know that we won’t follow them? Do you believe … Continue reading
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Tagged Health care, hypertension, ophthalmology, Optometry, Practice Management, Retina, Social Media
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Tips4EyeDocs Daily – 12/23/2011 – No 9 – Continuing your education
FROM THE EDITOR The wisdom of years of practice brings a precious chance to introspect. Over the years of active practice, I had managed hundreds of glaucoma patients of every conceivable color or shape. Yet I still wasn’t legislatively recognized … Continue reading
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Tagged Diabetes, Eye, Glaucoma, Health care, ophthalmology, Optometry, Practice Management, Retina, Retinopathy, Social Media
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Tips4EyeDocs Daily for 12/18/2011 No 4 – Patient Compliance
FROM THE EDITOR Would it not be insightful to wonder if a patient’s resolution would ever include compliance to recommendations to either periodic eye care or use of contact lenses? Frankly, I celebrate with those patients who do so. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Contact Lenses, medical eye care, Optometry, Practice Management, Retina, Social Media
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Tips4EyeDocs Daily for 12/16/2011 – VSP’s Business Model + Grand Rounds Brain Teaser
FROM THE EDITOR The Business Model of VSP and its competitors Private practice optometry is inherently inefficient and costly. To fuel this inefficiency, reimbursements and extra charges must be sufficiently flexible enough to reward panel doctors. However, this is untenable … Continue reading
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Tagged Eye, EyeGlasses, Health Economics, medical insurance, ophthalmology, Optometry, Practice Management, Retina, Vision plan, VSP
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A case of dilated and tortuous retinal vessels
UK optometrist Akil Kanani brings forth another interesting case. His 15-year-old WF presented in 2005 for her first eye examination whereby she was diagnosed with racemos hemangioma. Her most recent examination was unremarkable with Best vision at 6/6 each eye … Continue reading
Retinal hemorrhages – ?
CC: Reduced vision in left of unknown onset or duration HPI – A 64 year old male presented for a routine eye examination. He had noticed a slight dreduction of vision in his LE; but had attribtuted this to a … Continue reading
Posted in Posterior Segment
Tagged Eye, hemorrhages, Optometry, Physical Examination, Retina, vascular
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Case #006 – A Fundus in trouble
an asymptomatic patient presents for routine eye examination without acute complaints. The personal medical and eye history was non-contributory with no active management of any chronic medical problems. PE – Unaided VA 20/20 each eye that was no significantly improved … Continue reading
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Tagged Eye, hemorrhages, Optometry, Physical Examination, Retina, vascular
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