Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... Links I Liked Which is more important? Axial length or refractive error?I admit, I use refractive error only to manage my myopia patients. I don't deny the benefits of measuring axial length, but there are significant costs to the practice in terms of cost and...
21 days ago • 4 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... Links I Liked Should OCT angiography be performed on all patients with diabetes? Watch as Nate Lighthizer, OD, and Mile Brujic, OD, discuss two clinical cases where the OCTA findings led to interesting and contrary management plans. Optometric Insights...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... Links I Liked Should you bill the vision plan or the medical insurance? Chris Wroten, OD gives some practical advice on this common dilemma. Optometry Times How much hydroxychloroquine should our patients be taking? Randall Thomas, OD helps us find the sweet...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... Links I Liked They've Fit Over 5000 Patients With Scleral Lenses. Learn From Them. Scleral lens fitting isn't something I do every day, so refreshing my knowledge from those who do it all day, every day is extremely helpful. Here are some great clinical pearls...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links How Do You Manage These Macular Disorders in Primary Eye Care? In primary eye care, one of the top dozen or so chronic conditions to manage are vitreomacular interface disorders, i.e., epiretinal membranes (ERMs), vitreomacular traction (VMT),...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links What Do You Do When You Are Downcoded by an Insurance Company? If you’ve ever felt blindsided by a denied or downcoded claim, this article by Peter Cass, OD, offers a step-by-step guide to responding effectively. Save it, bookmark it, share it...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links How Much Should You Pay Yourself as an OD Owner? Every OD-owner wrestles with this: what’s a fair salary? This article gives a thoughtful, practice-size-adjusted framework for setting your pay and avoiding the “starving CEO” trap that leaves...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... Want to listen to an overview of the articles rather than read? Click here My Favorite Links When Glaucoma Meets RetinaAn excellent Review of Optometry article exploring how posterior segment diseases like glaucoma and retinal disorders overlap—and why that...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links Huberman on Vision & Eyesight: The popular podcaster, Andrew Huberman, PhD, walks through the neuroscience and behavioral protocols for maintaining and improving visual function. It's not optometry-specific, but it's packed with clinical pearls...
4 months ago • 4 min read