Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this weekly 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 You can develop a CEO mindset So many practice owners start with good intentions, but never slow down long enough to actually define where they’re going. A clear vision gives you something to say “yes” and “no” to. Without it, every decision feels...
11 days ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this weekly 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 Treating RCE aggressively in this manner is crucial. It may even be a "game changer" (more on that wonderful phrase below) way of preventing future RCE events. At least my clinical experience says so. Ahmad Fahmy, OD reviews the crucial aspects of...
18 days ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this weekly 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 Longevity is a popular topic. How can I live well More and more of my patients want to talk about longevity, not just how long they live, but how well they live. When those topics come up, I always point people toward Peter Attia, MD. He’s one of the...
25 days ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this weekly 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 I didn't plan to do pediatric care. But I realized my preferences weren't as important as my responsibility. Two excellent recent articles from are worth a read for any OD who has taken on the responsibility of pediatric eye care: Questions and...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this weekly 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... Yes, you read that correctly. Optometry Simplified is now weekly. Same depth and value, but a little shorter and delivered to you every Wednesday. - Kyle Links I Liked Get Stellest lens details in 3 mins Finally, a spectacle lens option is available to treat...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this weekly 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... Yes, you read that correctly. Optometry Simplified is now weekly. Same depth and value, but a little shorter and delivered to you every Wednesday. - Kyle Links I Liked 3 newly FDA-approved presbyopia drops, 1 in the works Most of us have been watching the...
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 Making “kid contacts” a reality: when and how to fit children in CLs safely This article reviews the evolving landscape of pediatric contact lenses, covering indications ranging from high anisometropia to myopia control and aphakia, and offers best...
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 Everyone needs a refresher. We've all likely used OCT and taken fundus photos for a while now. So reviewing the basics may feel unnecessary. I beg to differ. Read the Fine Art of Retinal Photography and the OCT Bootcamp to "get a grip on the...
2 months 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 Defeat contact lens discomfort. They come in saying, “My contacts bother me.” Too often, we treat that as a lens problem. However, to me, contact lens discomfort is dry eye until proven otherwise. I think the writers of this article agree with me....
3 months ago • 2 min read