, 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...
7 days 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...
14 days 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...
21 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 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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...
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 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 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 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...
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 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...
2 months ago • 3 min read