Monthly Archives: January 2016

This story was originally published in our September 2011 issue. Callie Maursetter, OD, learned in optometry school that the best job openings and opportunities can’t be found online or in a newspaper. Instead, she began to apply a combination of what and whom she knew.

By Elise Brisco, OD, FAAO—Optometrists are often the entryway into the health care system. Many of our patients rarely, if ever, have physical exams or see an internist, but they see us regularly because they need to see! Be a true primary care doctor by caring for your patients' wellbeing by doing a holistic health history and ocular health exam.

After 10 years in the same space, Brandee Marciano, OD, and Mark Marciano, OD, were feeling cramped in their 1,400-square-foot office in West Palm Beach, Florida.

By Cathy Doty, OD—I was thinking over the holidays about my favorite Christmas movie, A Christmas Carol. There are so many amazing things about this story, but one that is often overlooked has to do with “Ole Fezziwig” who employed and apprenticed Ebenezer Scrooge when he was a young man.

In 2012, after four years practicing inside the Bloomington, Indiana, Sam’s Club, Diana Christensen, OD, says that she was excited to hear that her office area would undergo a renovation.

This story originally appeared in our June 2009 issue. When Gina Wesley, OD, MS, FAAO, graduated from The Ohio State University College of Optometry in 2006, she expected to go into private practice. She just wasn’t sure where to turn. “I didn’t have any other family member or benefactor that helped me; I don’t come from a family of optometrists. I didn’t have any sort of great deal when it came to my lease or my building,” she says. “I just plain did it on my own.”