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June 2012 |
Features
The Stand-Alone Visioncare Debate
By: Lindsey Getz, Contributing Editor
With the debate reaching a critical stage, what, exactly, do both sides propose?
Analyzing The Economics Of Anterior Segment Disease
By: Andrew F. Smith, Ph.D.
Recent research into keratoconus, bacterial conjunctivitis and corneal infiltrative events provides a basis for cost/benefit analysis.
End Aberration Aggravation
By: Gina M. Wesley, O.D., M.S., F.A.A.O.
Enable higher-order aberration patients to achieve optimum vision.
Securing The Contact Lens Sale
By: Corrie Pelc, Contributing Editor
Five sure-fire tips to get your patients to purchase from you rather than a retailer.
CXL: Strengthening The Ties That Bind
By: Frank Giardina, O.D., F.A.A.O.
Now in FDA trials, corneal collagen cross-linking has been shown to slow the progression of keratoconus and
post-LASIK corneal ectasia in uropean studies.
Diagnose And Manage Dementia’s Visual Dimensions
By: Mark E. Wilkinson, O.D.
Patients with Alzheimer’s or arkinson’s disease may present with visual processing complaints that
predate significant cerebral neurodegeneration.
Sizing Up Specsavers
By: Crissa Shoemaker Debree, Contributing editor
Here’s an inside look at one of the world’s fastest growing retail practices — and its impact on optometry.
Before You Say Goodbye
By: Bob Levoy, O.D.
Through exit interviews, departing employees can tell you how to hang on to those who remain.
Departments
O.D. to O.D.
By: Walter D. West, O.D., F.A.A.O. Chief Optometric Editor
Sometimes, it gets lonely at the top.
Viewpoint
By: Jim Thomas, Executive Director
A heads up on concussions.
Practice Pulse
ASCRS Establishes Integrated Eyecare Model Task Force; Ranibizumab and Bevacizumab Effects Similar After Two Years; Management Memo; Research Notes; Sixty-Nine Year-Old Graduates Optometry School.
View From The Top
By: Gary Gerber, O.D.
Barking up the same tree.
Lessons Learned
By: Jack Runninger, O.D.
I hired some real Lulus.
Fix This Practice
By: Richard S. Kattouf, O.D., D.O.S.
Prevent out-of-control staff.
Nutrition
By: Kimberly K. Reed, O.D., F.A.A.O.
Omega-3 fatty acids 101.
Research In Practice
By: Mile Brujic, O.D.; Crystal Brimer, O.D.
Meibomian gland morphology.
Strategy & Innovation
By: Scot Morris, O.D., F.A.A.O
My favorite four systems.
Instrument Focus
By: Ansel T. Johnson, O.D.
The Diopsys Neuro Optic Vision Assessment (NOVA)-Visual Evoked Potentials (VEP) Vision Testing System, from Diopsys Inc.
Contact Lens Focus
By: Corrie Pelc, Contributing Editor
The msd Mini-Scleral Design lens, from Blanchard Contacts.
Reflections
By: Robert E. Reid, O.D.
Answering a call.