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What's Your Plan?

Make patients see better. It should be as simple as that.
04/15/2024

Platitudes, Schmatitudes

Listening, learning and being yourself leads to success.
03/15/2024

My Favorite Patients

Kids, dads, gamers, know-it-alls—I just love them.
02/15/2024

Pick Up the Phone

When a prospective patient calls your office, answer the ringer and be pleasant. It’s not hard.
01/15/2024

Unhappy Birthday

More trips around the sun means more chances for your patients to develop the dreaded presbyopia.
12/15/2023

What’s Your Policy?

If something happened with a patient but isn’t written on their chart, it didn’t happen.
11/15/2023

Use Your Turn Signals

Don’t make assumptions and cut to the chase with your patients, even when they don’t properly use theirs.
10/11/2023

Stress Less, YAWMAO More

Use this catchphrase in your next crazy encounter.
09/15/2023

Signing Your Life Away

Here are some fun ways to present informed consent to your patients.
08/15/2023

Recheck, Remake, Repeat

Here’s what I’ve learned from the annual glasses-check patients. You’re welcome.
07/15/2023

Upcoming Events

May 2, 2024

Rethinking Dry Eye Disease: A Contemporary Approach to a Complex Condition
Location: Virtual
Presenters:  Kamran Riaz, MD, and Melissa Barnett, OD
Webinar: 7:00pm ET

Sponsored by Bausch + Lomb

Register here

May 17-19, 2024

New Technologies & Treatments in Eye Care and Intrepid Eye Society's Spring Conference

Location: Omni La Costa, Carlsbad, California
Co-Chairs: Paul M. Karpecki, OD, and Selina McGee, OD

Register here

June 4, 2024

Rethinking Dry Eye Disease: A Contemporary Approach to a Complex Condition
Location: Virtual
Presenters:  Karl G. Stonecipher, MD, and Jessica Steen, OD
Webinar: 8:00pm ET

Sponsored by Bausch + Lomb

Register here