, 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 Are you misdiagnosing your burnout? Steve Vargo, OD, interviews Luke Mathers, an optometrist and stress resilience expert, about burnout. They unpack how burnout differs from being bored (or bored out), which also differs from feeling checked out....
8 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 A treatment plan for kids with DED and MGD. We've all seen plenty of kids with dry eye and lid disease. But how do we approach it? Is it different than how we approach adults? Not really; just know the most common etiological drivers and treat...
15 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 One of optometry's best publications is coming to an end. Ronald Melton, OD, and Randall Thomas, OD, have been writing the best, most clinically practical drug guide for 27 years. I remember keeping a copy of "Clinical Perspectives on Patient Care"...
29 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 What systemic workup is needed for each of these vascular diseases? Having a game plan for patients with ocular ischemic syndrome, artery occlusions, and vein occlusions is crucial to good long-term outcomes. Sheila Setork, OD, and Brian...
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 A dozen more medical exams are needed per week. Richard Edlow, OD, aka the "Eyeconomist" sees opportunity (and potential bottlenecks) for optometrists to increase medical eye care. He estimates that demand for routine exams will increase by 2...
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 Most ODs have a sales allergy. I do too. But having a plan and practicing it has helped me overcome my hypersensitivity. True to form, Donald Miller and his podcast guest recently discussed a great framework for selling without sounding pushy. The...
about 2 months 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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
3 months ago • 2 min read