October 15, 2018

Features

Glaucoma

Glaucoma: From Landmark Studies to Modern-day Care

While it’s important to remember where you come from, it’s also important to embrace where you’re going.

Optometric Study Center

The ABCs of Radiologic Testing

Clinicians should be prepared to order CT and MRI should the need arise. Patients’ lives may count on it.

Practice Management

Expanding Scope of Practice: Lessons and Leverage

With 20 years of success to tout, the tactics —and the results—are changing.

Should You Sell to Private Equity?

With an upward trend in buyouts, private practice ODs have even more to consider when planning for their futures.

The Why and How of Hospital Privileges

Don’t shy away from this patient care—and practice boosting—opportunity.

Technology

Will Remote Refraction Tarnish Telemedicine?

Competitive efforts risk alienating ODs from a new mode of care that holds much potential for good.

Departments

Chairside

Trust Your Intuition

Patients can be confusing; but if you know what to look and listen for, you’ll know what’s up.

Clinical Quandaries

Buckle Down

Recognize the situations when a surgeon would consider using scleral buckle procedures.

Coding Connection

In Your Practice…and Wallet

How you make your money now affects your practice value long-term.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Delaying the Inevitable

With persistent epithelial defects, referring to a specialist may ultimately be the best option.

Diagnostic Quiz

A Red Eye Fight

Ocular trauma during a basketball game sent this patient to our office for much-needed help.

Focus on Refraction

It's a Small World After All

Prolonged near-point tasks shrink a patient’s visual horizon to their immediate surroundings, overtaxing vergence and accommodation.

Glaucoma Grand Rounds

Customize Your Steroid Choice

A glaucoma patient undergoes cataract surgery and develops elevated intraocular pressure. What is the best way to manage this situation?

Ocular Surface Review

Re-think Autologous Serum

Clinicians are turning to this therapy earlier and more frequently, as new products make serum-derived tears easier to obtain and use.

Outlook

A Death in the Family

Everyone who knew Frank Fontana was enriched by our connection to him. We’re all going to miss him dearly.

Retina Dilemmas

RAO: Keep Calm and Refer On

Blockages are an emergency, but some in-office therapies might help if you see patients in time.

Retina Quiz

Light at the End of the Tunnel

How can this pediatric patient’s family history inform his diagnosis?

Surgical Minute

Break Up With Your Lid Bumps

With a chalazion and a concurrent pyogenic granuloma, conservative therapy will not provide relief.

Therapeutic Review

Stressed Out

When “type A” patients come under pressure, their eyes can pay the price.

Through My Eyes

The Lesson of Online Refraction

It may be convenient, but it leaves our patients at risk. With new technologies, we can beat it at its own game.