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Imagine this: You're at an eye-care conference, waiting for the lecturer to begin, when you start talking with a fellow practitioner sitting just a few seats away. She tells you [...]

Have you been feeling frustrated, angry and irritable as a result of interaction with your patients and staff? Have you been experiencing physical symptoms, such as digestive problems, headaches and [...]

Contact lens industry data reveal good news and bad news for the contact lens portion of your practice. The good news? There is a large upswing in male and middle-aged [...]

The ability to prove to a bank that you deserve a loan for the purchase of new space for your ever-growing practice is a real pain in the neck--that is, [...]

If HGTV (Home and Garden Television) ever runs out of segments for its Generation Renovation program--a show about renovating old and unique places--the network should give optometrist Robert Strohecker and [...]

Safe harbors are regulations that protect people or businesses from legal problems that could result from their actions, provided they meet certain conditions. For optometry, safe harbor first referred to [...]

Each year, the American Dialect Society--an organization dedicated to the study of how languages and dialects influence the English language--releases a list of the words and phrases they say have [...]

Optometrist Glenda Secor, of Huntington Beach, Calif., hadn't planned on specializing in contact lenses. Rather, she fell into this niche in 1978, when she got her first job. She worked [...]

When optometrist Bill F. Hefner, of Topeka, Kan., graduated from optometry school in 1997, he felt fairly confident he'd get his foot in the door at a private practice. Why? [...]

Eleven years ago, then 39-year-old Chip Goehring of Doylestown, Pa., saw his ophthalmologist for his regular yearly checkup (he is near-sighted), when his doctor diagnosed him with dry age-related macular [...]

On January 11, 2002, a New Jersey optometrist was sentenced to seven years in state prison, and was fined more than $1 million dollars for three counts of defrauding 29 [...]

When asked to discuss a memorable case of matching a pair of ophthalmic lenses to a patient's lifestyle, optometrist Carl Gaterbaum of Orlando Eye Associates fondly recalls the case of [...]

As of June 2005, Hispanics comprised 41.3 million of the 294 million total U.S. population--one-seventh of all those living in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Also, [...]

Type in "contact lenses" on your favorite search engine, and within seconds, your screen is invaded by a barrage of discount mail-order contact lens companies. On Google, this search brings [...]

When approached by his publisher (Elsevier) to do a third edition of Manual of Contact Lens Prescribing and Fitting with CD-ROM, optometrist Milton M. Hom, of Azusa, Calif., was reluctant. [...]

When asked to discuss a case involving premium lenses and add-ons, optician Amy King talks about a female patient who came in for an eye exam and then chose to [...]

Optometrist Elisa Perreault literally started out in the basement and worked her way up. Six-and-a-half years ago, Dr. Perreault purchased a practice in the lower level of a professional building, [...]

YOU REALLY CAN have too much mulch around your trees and shrubs. Yes, a layer of bark mulch or other organic matter will control weeds, retain moisture, and moderate soil [...]

For allergy patients, fall often means relief from the lush summer foliage that's responsible for much of their misery. But, just because the fall doesn't look like the summer or [...]

Patients who have early-stage age-related macular degeneration are almost twice as likely to have a stroke than those who do not have this ocular disease, according to a study in [...]

The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery says it will limit registration of optometrists attending its annual symposium. Only two types of O.D.s will be able to attend: O.Ds [...]

According to the Center for Contact Lens Research (CCLR) at University of Waterloo College of Optometry, some 2.7 million patients become dropouts each year. The good news? You can prevent [...]

The article profiles Kevin Anderson, an optometrist in Fort Collins, Colorado. He decided to implement more disease-based eye care in the late 1990's and eventually subleased some of his space to two ophthalmologists. He focuses more on disease-based eye care and recruit optometry-friendly ophthalmologists because a nearby ophthalmology practice, to which he referred several patients for LASIK and other procedures often did not refer patients back to him.

Reports on the renovation of the historic T. W. Judge Building by optometrist Robert Strohecker in Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Purpose of the renovation; Estimate of costs of the renovation; Historical background of the building.

The article presents information about optometrist Glenda Secor of Huntington Beach, California. She has learnt a lot from the marketing techniques her colleagues have used in their contact lens, children's vision and low vision practices. She worked in a contact lens specialty practice that was affiliated with a hard contact lens lab, owned by an optometrist. When Dr. Secor realized there was no potential for advancement at the practice, she cut back her hours and began traveling to the offices of the ophthalmologists who referred patients to the clinic for contact lens fittings and patient education. Dr. Secor's practice caters to children who are interested in contact lenses for cosmetic reasons, presbyopic patients who do not want to discontinue contact lens wear and patients who require therapeutic contact lenses.