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All five Primary Care Optometry News bloggers posted new entries within the past week. Topics cover age-related macular degeneration, health care reform, technology, social media and nutrition.
Blogger Gary L. Morgan, OD, believes optometrists are obligated to warn patients with pre-AMD of the risk of future vision loss and educate them on what preventive steps can be taken.
Develop your own primary care report card
Optometrists are evolving as essential primary health care providers, says blogger Scott A. Edmonds, OD, FAAO, and striving to meet the challenge of their expanded role in health care reform. He says there is increasing evidence that a primary health care wellness encounter could be a separate and distinct service from the comprehensive eye examination.
Successful innovations benefit industry, practices, patients
John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, shares observations from the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting and how he considers three stakeholders when weighing the value of any new offering: the medical drug and device industry, the physician practice and, most importantly, the patient.
Tell your patients you are the expert
In this second installment of his video blog, social media expert Agustin L. Gonzalez, OD, urges optometrists to use social media to remind patients why they trust you and why they should be engaged with you.
Jeffrey Anshel, OD, FAAO, attended a conference in Denmark and compares their nutritional supplement guidelines with those in the U.S. He also shares his visitor’s perspectives on the plethora of bicyclists.