November 15, 2010

Features

Recognizing Best’s Disease

Two cases of this rare condition, involving a mother and son, demonstrate an assortment of diagnostic challenges.

Orals Only for Acute HSV?

What’s the current treatment for acute herpes simplex epithelial keratitis? Viroptic, Zirgan—or oral acyclovir?

Practical Coding for Comanaging Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Be ready to discuss and offer these technologies to your patients. It’s both a responsibility and an opportunity.

Secret Shopper Finds Lack of Contact Lens Education

What could go wrong when our ‘secret shopper’ simply gets new contacts? A lot.

Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing: What You Can Do

As consumers take advantage of the affordable and convenient over-the-counter genetic testing options, it is important for optometrists to help patients interpret results and make informed healthcare decisions.

Nutrition

How to Help Prevent Cataract

A review of the role of environment, antioxidants, carotenoids, nutrition, enzymes, diet, medications, metabolism and other factors on cataract.

Pediatrics

Where We Fall Short In Pediatric Optometry

The key to a successful pediatric eye exam starts with the accurate assessment of a child’s visual acuity and cycloplegic retinoscopy.

Practice Management

Let Your Staff Run Your Staff Meetings

The key to productive office meetings is encouraging your staff to make them informative and more enjoyable.

Words Do Matter: A Case in Point

A few well-placed words among friends in the U.S. saved a woman’s vision in Africa.

Profiles in Excellence

Eye to Eye with Dr. Oliver Sacks

His new book explores sensory loss and abilities found—including his own loss of vision to eye cancer.

Retina

Managing Retinal Breaks

Are you prepared for the many manifestations of a retinal tear? Here is a case of a patient who required repeated laser treatments.

Departments

Chairside

‘Impossible’ n’est pas Français

Translation: The word ‘impossible’ is not French. Another way of putting it: Anything can happen. But it usually doesn’t.

Coding Connection

Why I Dread the S Code

We can’t report our services in a different way than other providers report theirs.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Got Shingles? Give This a Shot

Herpes zoster vaccination is CDC recommended and doctor approved.

Diagnostic Quiz

History of Stroke to Blame

Letters to the Editor

Doctors’ Responsibility With Off-Label Drugs

Taking the Pragmatic Approach

News Review

Retina Chip Restores Vision

‘Push-Pull’ Therapy Aids Fine Depth Perception

Patients Don’t Realize Bad Contact Lens Habits

Academy of Ophthalmology Roundup

Optometry: One of the Best U.S. Jobs

Consumer Reports Ranks Costco Optical at Top of List

VSP and Costco Begin Pilot Program

Optometrists’ Drug Rxs Jump by 13%

O.D.s are writing more drug prescriptions, reflecting a focus on medical care.

In the News

Outlook

O.D. Know-It-Alls

Be a jack-of-all-trades…even if you’re a master of just one.

Retina Quiz

Red-Orange Color is the Clue

This patient presented with blurred vision and distortion. But, ultrasound, OCT and BIO helped us make the correct diagnosis.

Review of Systems

Neoplastic Disease: Part 2

Breast cancer touches the lives of all optometrists, either professionally, personally, or both.

Therapeutic Review

Help with Horner’s

Here, we provide an overview of Horner’s syndrome as well as examine the appropriate pharmacological testing.