business advisor - Your Year-End Practice Check Up

Use these three areas to evaluate your practice's performance in 2003.

clinical challenges - The Transplanted Gardener

Studying the facts and fine-tuning the treatment let this patient continue enjoying her hobby.

Clinical Update: Normal Tension Glaucoma

Become definitive in your glaucoma diagnosis and don't rely on elevated IOP alone. Consider these other factors.

Digital Photography: Worth More Than a Thousand Words

This "tool of tomorrow" will help you achieve clinical efficiency that your patients will appreciate today.

fix this practice - Designing Spaces

When redesigning an office, look past cost barriers to the big picture.

Giving Tomorrow's O.D.s a Helping Hand

Externships can benefit both students and your practice. Here's how to make them work.

How to Find GOLD in Coding

Are you leaving money on the insurance reimbursement table? Find out how to get the most out of medical billing.

instrumental strategies - Diagnosis Made Easy

The Stratus OCT3 eliminates much of the mystery in glaucoma detection.

lessons learned - Beware the Three Ps

Patients appreciate it when you use words they understand.

o.d. to o.d. - An Optometric Carol

Of all the gifts you receive this holiday season, a simple calendar could bring joy to your world.

Practice Pulse

Tips, Trends & News You Can Use

reflections - It's All How You Look At It

Sometimes the patients who require the most of your time can teach you a thing or two.

staffing solutions - Get Them Off to the Right Start

It matters how you treat new employees on their first day.

therapeutic insights - Star Antibiotics of 2003

Vigamox and Zymar live up to expectations.

view from the top - Overlooking the Obvious?

When you train new staffers, do you forget to teach them the basics?

viewpoint - A Holiday Lesson from Consumers

How optometrists benefit when people get excited about $1,000 washers.