by Optometric Insights | Jun 27, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
As eyecare providers we often put our patients into glasses or contact lens wearing buckets. Despite my greatest efforts, I still find myself forgetting to discuss contact lenses to my glasses wearing patients or glasses to my contact lens wearing patients. As the...
by Optometric Insights | Jun 26, 2016 | Contact Lens Today, Publications
Not to make light of the gruesomeness of the historically inaccurate movie Braveheart, I love the heart-tugging cry for freedom that he makes at the end of the movie. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLCEUpIg8rE) I think patients are screaming with the same intensity...
by Optometric Insights | Jun 20, 2016 | Student's Blog
Optometry and politics, what do those two unrelated topics have to do with each other? That was the first question I had when immediate past California Optometric Association president, Dr. Barry Weismann, came to speak at my school during orientation week. As a first...
by Optometric Insights | Jun 16, 2016 | Blog
There’s a calming peace that can be felt as the sun slowly rises up the horizon. Few people ever wake up early enough to experience these moments as they stay wrapped up in their comforters, enjoying their last couple of hours of sleep before their alarms remind them...
by Optometric Insights | Jun 15, 2016 | Clinical Insights, Publications
Occasionally, patients present with dry and irritated eye complaints but do not necessarily have dry eye disease (DED). Floppy eyelid syndrome, a condition in which a patient’s eyelids are easily everted, can lead to symptoms similar to DED. Dr. Mile...
