, 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 When fellow optometrists write books, let's read them. Regardless of practice type, both offer real value to the modern OD. Pick up Kurt Steele, OD's We're Not Selling, We're Winning to learn how he grew a struggling small town practice from $280K...
14 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 A visual showing the efficacy of all the current presbyopia drops. Jason Ng, OD, manually created a graph comparing the efficacy of all the FDA-approved presbyopia drops. Take that, AI. The differences are quite striking when you see it displayed...
21 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 Thinking scientifically is not natural. We must work at it. This is the podcast that I wish I had done. Every optometrist and student should listen and learn from this excellent review of how to overcome bias and identify misinformation. As I've...
28 days 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... Links I Liked The eye care workforce math is hard to ignore.Ophthalmology supply is projected to shrink 12% by 2035 while the population ages and chronic eye disease grows. ODs are already the most widely distributed eye care providers in the country, but that...
about 1 month ago • 4 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 Cataract surgery as an intervention for dementia? A recent meta-analysis of over 240,000 patients found that cataract surgery reduced dementia risk by 25% compared to leaving cataracts untreated. The working theory: untreated vision loss...
about 1 month ago • 5 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 AI may be reshaping eye care faster than most ODs realize. A new industry website, ODs on Technology, covers the intersection of artificial intelligence, diagnostics, and emerging clinical tools. It's a clean, well-curated resource for independent...
about 2 months 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 Read and refresh before your next diplopia workup. In primary eye care, ocular motor palsies are rare enough to forget the details but common enough that you can't afford to. Here's a good refresher by Erin Draper, OD, on how to work up your next...
about 2 months ago • 5 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 Can we predict who is at risk for Alzheimer's disease based on the eye?A review from Duke Eye Center's iMIND group outlines where retinal diagnostics for Alzheimer's disease actually stand. Check out the article for some pretty interesting...
2 months ago • 4 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 Prescribe warm compresses wisely. Not all dry eye is MGD, not all MGD is obstructive, and not all obstructive MGD responds to heat. However, warm compresses get recommended almost reflexively across all of it. This piece breaks down the actual...
2 months ago • 5 min read