Iowa sues “See Clearly Method”The Iowa attorney general is suing the company that produces the “See Clearly Method.” It’s about time somebody did. In oppie school I was going to a function with some non-oppie friends. The driver stated his nearsighted glasses prescription says “1,” but with the See Clearly Method he sees good without glasses.
I silently offered a prayer for our safety.
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Fluress has a dirty little secretOkay the headline was a little sensational. I work in the Blackfeet Nation. I had just finished explaining that we were putting in a numbing drop, yada yada. After the drop of Flurox, the patient’s friend asked me, “What’s in the drop?”
I answered, “Benoxinate.”
“What?” said the friend.
“Benoxinate,” I repeated.
“That sounds very close to a dirty word in Blackfeet,” stated the patient.
So, if you’re ever around anyone from any of the Northern Piegan tribes, then try saying “oxybuprocaine” instead of benoxinate.
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Vision Therapy by CatalogSounds like sports vision therapists may be out of a job when people can just get a VT system from a catalog. Just kidding. I’m still not sure why a person would pay $200 for a “eye exercise machine” if they’re not sure they need it and if they’re not sure it’s doing any good.
Prevent STDs
In Montana, we went to North American Indian Days. When it was all over we went back to see the clean up, and apparently my employer had a trailer there. I didn’t even know we had one. Perhaps they sold it to someone who didn’t bother repainting it, but who ever brought it down there was giving away free stuff:oops:.
A Novel LCDIf I would use my optics training to develop something like this, I could retire.
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More Eye-related blogsI was thinking that almost no one is blogging about optometry practice. I may have mis-spoke. Here are some examples:
Hollander Consultants has a blog about professional practice management.
There’s another generic blog that goes out and probably automatically searches for news that has the word “optometry” in it. Then posts it to the blog. Still, it’s useful.
I encountered some others in my sporadic web searching for eye-related blogs, but I keep running into these auto-generated sites that appear to just be linking to some budget retailers.
The ones I’ve found so far that seem worth while are in my blog roll to the right. If you know of any I should add, leave it in the comments section or contact me.
Eye-related PodcastsJosh Young, MD’s podcast by health professionals, for health professionals is unique for now. Still, I wonder why it hasn’t caught on more with other docs. I’d especially like to know why the eye world magazines haven’t already jumped all over it. Certain publications offer free CE all the time. How come they don’t offer an audio version along with the text? Seriously, we need to hear more from the experts in the field. We need to hear more from the ophthalmic manufacterers. We need to hear more from practice consultants. Actually the Williams Group offers free CD’s on some topics, and you can also listen to them on their website. That’s a good start, but let’s put them in syndication so I can automatically grab them with a podcatcher!
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Eye Science Podcasting SiteJosh Young, MD is an ophthalmologist out on the bleeding edge. He has a podcast featuring interviews of experts in the ophthalmic community. (His podcast even includes cool segway music.) Visit his site, As Seen From Here, and subscribe to his podcasts. He even has a great tutorial for podcasting newbies on how to automatically receive his podcasts.
As a student extern, I used to listen to Audio Archives of Ophthalmology that the office owned. When I left that rotation, I no longer had access to this since the tapes are expensive to get. Now I can resume listening to the latest pertinent topics in eye care with Dr. Young’s free podcast. Very nice.
Sure, I don’t have a long commute to work anymore (the hospital boarders my back yard), but at least I can listen while doing laundry, cleaning, etc.
The best part is Dr. Young has a phone number you can call to ask questions, so you can be on his podcast!
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Eye Doctors Should BlogPoliticians are blogging. Everyone should be blogging, including optometrists. Your patients don’t have eye questions only once a year. They probably have several questions during the year and forget them when it comes time for their one-hour-per-year at your office. Instead of making them write it down, why not communicate with them over the internet in blogs and forums from your practice website?
Perhaps in our blogs we should answer the questions they don’t ask. This is a great new modality for patient-doctor interaction. Please blog.
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EHR wants #2Things I want included in an EMR
Things I want in PMS:
For many of these things to happen, there should probably be some sort of work group where everyone agrees on the format for data exportation from our ophthalmic equipment. Any manufacturer who doesn’t play well with data exportation should be boycotted. Currently, many EHR vendors only work with certain companies. I think that’s ridiculous. I don’t want to be limited to only a single brand of equipment in my office.
