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YES there is still time, it is still that time of year when new beginnings and New Year Resolutions are still fresh and unbroken so an opportunity to try something new in terms of re-charging your “batteries” in 2012. Look no further listed below here are some of my ideas: Consider attending a training [...]
I gave a talk at a local school recently. One boy put his hands up, ‘My mum tells me that eating lots of carrots helps you to see better in the dark.’ Whilst I would in no way wish to cross another parent’s comment on the importance of eating vegetables, especially with the great uphill [...]
Most of us have bad habits, most of us do things we shouldn’t do, eat too much chocolate, or have one too many glasses of wine at the weekend. Most practicing Optometrists spend our days giving out advice and best practice to patients hoping that it will be followed. Always wash your hands before touching [...]
Over recent years I appear to be fitting less and less rigid gas permeable lenses in the GOS. At a recent gathering, some friends were even debating whether or not GP lens fitting should now become a ‘specialist service’ only to be provided by practitioners who manage to demonstrate the experience. After all, with dwindling [...]
First Published in Optometry Today, May 2011 History: why did the College implement the move? The College introduced the OSCE’s, or Objective Structured Clinical Examinations a few years back as a forward move to a system of pre-registration examinations that were seen to be less biased, impartial and non-discriminatory. Like many significant changes in any [...]
There I was, Friday afternoon, reflecting on a week comprising of mainly routine refractions but with the few interesting cases that kept my brain active. However, one area of clinical practice that I had observed during the week worried me: Contact lens wearers seem to know best!
I am a keen swimmer. Over the past few years swimming has gradually become my main form of exercise. I wear goggles, I wear contact lenses, and when I occasionally forget either one or both, I usually muddle on and get some quality exercise all the same.
Having started back in the Hospital Eye Service recently after several years of absence I have been absolutely amazed at the variation in quality of referral letters that come in from optometrists and GPs working within our Local Health Authority. Some letters are absolutely dreadful and say very little, whilst many others (sadly far fewer, [...]
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