Craig N. Piso, PhD

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2024, Craig N. Piso, PhD, discusses the importance of selling in an ethical and consultative way.

KOLOA, Hawaii — At Hawaiian Eye 2020, Craig N. Piso, PhD, shares pearls for improving ophthalmic technician performance based on proven techniques to effect behavioral change.

The late Stephen Covey asserted in his classic book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, that we all do well to begin with the end in mind. That is, any important life or career goal is staged most successfully by first creating a clear vision of the outcome we desire.

If you will forgive the potentially disturbing observation that I make as a clinical psychologist, I will assert that like any addiction, our habitual pursuit of financial sufficiency, professional control and personal comfort is a substitute for the difficult task of wrestling with our eventual death.

There was this ophthalmologist … and when he was good, he was very good indeed. But when he was bad, he was horrid.

“The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Winston Churchill

“All human wisdom is summed up in these two words — wait and hope.” – Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

What makes a merely good ophthalmic practice great? This is the last column in a three-part series exploring the determinants of eye surgeon happiness and satisfaction.

What makes a merely good ophthalmic practice great? This is the second column in a three-part series exploring the determinants of eye surgeon happiness and satisfaction.

What makes a good ophthalmic practice great? Depending on the observer’s professional discipline or position — doctor, manager, staffer or patient — it may be many things: