Blogging

A number of key opinion leaders submit blogs to Healio Optometry, and two of our most popular bloggers are Scott Edmonds, OD, FAAO, and Oliver Kuhn-Wilken, OD. Here are their top posts over the past year.

In this episode, John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, and Jim Mazzo discuss leadership in eye care with guest Jack T. Holladay, MD, MSEE, FACS.

Throughout the year, Healio publishes a host of blogs on topics ranging from common conditions like keratoconus and glaucoma to crossover care that includes concussion management and diseases of the brain.

At this writing, nearly half the world’s population is under lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Virtually all medical practices across the country are open to only emergency and urgent patient visits, if that. And it’s completely unclear how long the shutdown will last. But there are options our practices can explore even now to help our patients and support our employees. Here are three steps you can take.

Social media users attempting to track COVID-19 via Facebook, Twitter, personal blogs or forums are likely to encounter as much misinformation as reliable information. The pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the importance of truth and facts in the online universe.

So many frustrating unknowns surround us in this health care crisis. Whether we are a doctor or a staff member, an industry employee or a researcher, at this writing we have no real idea how much our loved ones might suffer, when we will return to work and how government subsidies will help us support our families and our employees. But like those who lived through the Great Depression, we are quickly learning lessons in resilience that will color the rest of our lives. Without knowing the rest of this story, I do know what I wish for in the post-COVID-19 world: