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PCONSuperSite.com: a new resource for researching those complex cases
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Today was a pretty typical Saturday. I was taking call and started the day by seeing a few patients. Then we packed up the kids and attended a family birthday party. Next came our son’s baseball game and then a late dinner. Before we knew it the day was pretty much gone. And while it was a great day, I carried this nagging concern regarding one of my patients.
He’s a 23-year-old physical education teacher I had examined a day earlier. While he was in otherwise perfect health, this patient’s visit was precipitated by two episodes of transient monocular vision loss during the previous few months. Yes, a 23-year-old with transient vision loss. While his ophthalmic examination was entirely normal and I communicated with his internist, I still felt something was missing and that I needed to do a little more research. But when?
Little time for research
In an ideal world, we’d all have plenty of time to address these vexing clinical scenarios. We’d have ample appointment time allotted for each patient as well as “research” time to further investigate our more complex cases. The reality is that most of us are booked solid with patient appointments from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. each day, and our personal lives are just as hectic. Indeed, time is our most precious commodity.
At Primary Care Optometry News, we appreciate how valuable your time is. Since we began publishing Primary Care Optometry News 6 years ago, our mantra has been the same: provide our readers with coverage of contemporary optometric issues – clinical and otherwise – in a concise, accurate and expedient fashion. In short, in these very busy times we strive to provide our colleagues with a valuable (and worthy) reading experience.
Now we’d like to expand the services we provide our readers. Later this month we will launch the PCON SuperSite (at PCONSuperSite.com), which will be updated daily with breaking ophthalmic news. We think you’ll find our SuperSite both a complement to Primary Care Optometry News and a tremendous resource. By just logging on, clinicians can check out a “top story,” review continuing education options, search classifieds and link to a variety of eye care resources.
Archived ophthalmic information
But perhaps most importantly, colleagues can search previous issues of all of the SLACK eye care publications, including Primary Care Optometry News, Ocular Surgery News, Journal of Refractive Surgery, Ophthalmic Surgery & Lasers and Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus. In short, the SuperSite provides an extremely time-efficient way in which to conduct a wide-reaching literature search for those particularly complex cases.
When you think about it, our professional lives are really all about getting answers. And while we feel that Primary Care Optometry News is an excellent resource for addressing contemporary issues on a monthly basis, we also realize that you sometimes need answers daily. We’re confident that you’ll find our SuperSite a valuable resource in this capacity. So please visit us on the Web. See if we can help your practice as well as your patients — and maybe save you a little time!