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December 2012

Features

How's Your Retina Display?
By:  Lindsey Getz, Contributing Editor
Four effective ways to educate patients on their retinal disease, so they return for your care.

How to Comanage Patients Who Have Retinal Disease
By:  Robert Murphy, Contributing Editor
Serve your patients best with confidence, cooperation and communication.

Poised for the Next Breakthrough in AMD Therapy
By:  Virginia Pickles, Contributing Editor
The combination of an anti-PDGF and anti-VEGF therapy has shown results in patients with exudative disease.

Genetic Testing For Retinal Disease: Part 1
By:  David Nelson, O.D., M.B.A.; Jerome Sherman, O.D., F.A.A.O.
Five tests are currently available to identify patient risk for AMD.

Discussing Dry Eye Disease
By:  Ernest Bowling, OD, MS, FAAO, DIPL.
Effectively managing this disease is contingent on strong patient communication.

Solving the Top Challenges in Staff Management
By:  Rebecca L. Johnson, C.P.O.T., C.O.T., C.O.
Use these tips to help your practice run at an optimal level.

Departments

O.D. to O.D.
By:  Scot Morris, O.D., F.A.A.O
Retina: the new frontier.

Viewpoint
Communication as good medicine.

Practice pulse
Optometric Practices in the Eye of Hurricane Sandy; Digital Tablets Improve Reading Speeds in Low Vision Patients; CooperVision Announces Website to Service U.S. Military Community; Guy Sherman, CL Trailblazer; Glaucoma Drug May Cure Baldness; and Research Notes.

View from the Top
By:  Gary Gerber, O.D.
Did you achieve all your 2012 goals?

Lessons Learned
By:  Jack Runninger, O.D.
A fan of clever retorts.

Fix This Practice
By:  Richard S. Kattouf, O.D., D.O.S.
Low net income is the top concern.

Nutrition
By:  Jeffrey Anshel, O.D., F.A.A.O.
"Carrots are good for your eyes."

Research in Practice
By:  Mile Brujic, O.D.; Crystal Brimer, O.D.
Modifying MK risk.

Diagnostic Focus
By:  Scott Han, OD, FAAO
AdenoPlus from Nicox.

Dry Eye
By:  Kelly Nichols, O.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
A helpful media.

Contact Lens Focus
By:  Jennifer Harthan, OD, FAAO; Shana Brafman, OD
Chemistry lab gone wrong.

Staffing Solutions
By:  Bob Levoy, O.D.
Enrich your Staff.

Reflections
By:  VERONICA RUELAS, O.D.
A chitta change.