Monthly Archives: June 2020
Dr. Linda Chous: Could Coronavirus-Related Stress Result in More Increased Non-Organic Vision Loss?
Linda Chous, OD, owner of the whimsically named The Glasses Menagerie in Minneapolis, Minnesota, encourages ODs to be on the lookout for a possible spike in nonorganic vision loss.
So Long to the Salad Bar
By Marjolijn Bijlefeld—In the count-your-blessings category, eye care is an essential health care service.
When Every Sale Counts, It’s Important to Have an Online Contact Lens Store
Throughout most of the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, Jane Strong, OD, of Strong Vision Center in Fairfield and Spring Cypress, Texas, was able to keep most of her staff working, at least on a part-time basis.
Women in Optometry – June 2020
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Opening in Record Time
On May 1, 2020, Sujey Kuan, OD, learned that she would be losing the lease to her corporate-affiliated practice at the end of that month.
Reopening Means Re-establishing the Capture Rate
Reopening Norwalk Eye Care in Norwalk, Connecticut, to routine and comprehensive care after COVID-19 is going to force a resetting of the key performance...
OD’s Personal Decision for a Toric ICL Influences Her Conversations
By Christine Smith, OD—Through my work co-managing refractive surgery patients, I expanded my knowledge about the procedures and options that exist and started seriously considering what path might be best for me.
OD Career Path in a Refractive Surgery Practice
By Jennifer Gonzalez, OD, FAAO—If you had asked me during my fourth year of optometry school where I would like to practice after graduation, my answer would have been in a multidisciplinary clinic with an emphasis in ocular disease.
Step Away From the Old Mascara Tube
In her quest to translate the science of ocular surface disease to layman-speak in 2002, Amy Gallant Sullivan, executive director and co-creator of the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society, got curious.
Feeling Less Alone as Part of a Larger Group of Colleagues
Jennifer Landa-Geertz, OD, started as an independent OD practice owner inside a Walmart near Chicago, Illinois, nearly 20 years ago.
