Dear Prevention-minded friends, Subject: The need for a pure-plus effort. 1. A bifocal (study) is run. 2. The results are good. (i.e., the plus group does ...
Bif_Fail.txt Dear Plus-prevention friend, Subject: The reason these bi-focal studies "fail". I have been asked on a number of occasions to "exlpain" why these...
Amblyopia, or `lazy eye', is reduced corrected visual acuity which exists in the absence of any detectable organic disease. Typically amblyopia is present in...
Dear Second-opinion friends, In general the majority-opinion ODs think that ANYONE who disagrees with them is a non-scientific person. This is just FALSE....
NeilPage.txt For Neil Brooks, Subject: RT's advice to you -- to set up your own "page". You have your own personal site. Rather that calling everyone a F....
Additional definition of amblyopia: At 49 clinical sites, 507 patients with amblyopia received optimal optical correction and were then randomized to receive...
Dear Scientific friends, The nature of the fudamental eye -- is that it is either dynamic or not-dynamic. The goal is to determine whether it is (in terms of...
Dear Reader, Subject: Why the bifocal (with a minus) will fail, and why the plus succeeds. In these "bifocal" studies, it seems that is it is more important...
... In all fairness to the "plus is a proven failure" people, I don't think any of the myopia-control plus-on-bottom spectacles used "chips" for the plus...
Dear Alex, I think there is another reason why these so-called bi-focal studies fail. The reason is that the person is treated as a "patient", and not an ...
Dear "Empowered" friends, Subject: Is your refractive STATE plus or minus? Re: Given that you have your own trial-lens kit -- how much skill is required to...
Dear Prevention-minded friends, Subject: What some ODs do to CLEAR their own vision. Some ODs will give you the impression that ANY vision clearing IS...
Dear Friends, Subject: Just the scientific facts. I have a strong opinion -- and that is that I want to be presented with the true facts concerning the...
Dear Prevention-minded friends, Here are some assumptions the "lay public" makes about the suggestion to use PREVENTIVE methods -- on the threshold. Or, when,...
Re: "Tropia" versus "Phoria" ... "Phoria". Otis> As I understand it, a "Phoria" is a normal situation, where, when one eye is blocked, there is slight eye-turn...
Subject: Unhappyness in optometry. Initially, optometry started out with the use of a trial-lens kit, and people who would travel from town-to-town selling...
From: Anon E. Muss Steve>What is the best way to fund four years of Optometry school ? DrMuss> As a current OD, I'd tell her to find a different profession. ...
PClarOD.txt Subject: PClar's opinion on the future of optometry. Optometry is a good career, especially for women. What makes it good is that working in a...
Some ODs are learning how to help their own children with prevention -- at the threshold. Others have their heads buried so deep in their "office" that they...
MO_BS.txt Subject: Majority-opinion bull: A minus lens has NO EFFECT on the eye's refractive STATE. In general, I consider the natural eye to be proven to be...
From "Optometry Sucks" Re: [optometrysucks] Re: Optometry Sales Maybe all you cynics would be much happier if all optometrists went away like magic so you can...
Re: VT patients are underserved Herein lies the deception. Child not doing well in school, lets try some VT. It's better than nothing. Your child have...
Subject: VT patients are underserved I will chime in on this. I recently did an exam on a 14 year old patient with good grades. His dad wanted a second...
... investment banking, "real" medicine, etc.) NO, Patients only look to you only to get their eyeglass/ Contact lens prescription ... Wrong, Patients overwear...
JakeSpec.txt Re: Requirements to practice optometry (Part 2). Here are some excerpts from the book, "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A LAMED-VOV-NIK" -- (One of...
JakeOD.txt Subject: The OD and his development of the concept of plus-for-prevention. Re: Requirements to practice optometry Here are some excerpts from the...
... is good -- then have him read this official Snellen. ... I would suspect he could read the 20/30 line. ... to learn how to do it. Your OD should be...
Subject: Combat in the air -- combat on the ground. Enjoy, ============== Re: "icfine70": GOD HELP ME IF EVER I'M A PASSENGER IN A CRAFT CAPTAINED BT YOU! ...
Subject: The "down" side of optometry. Student-loan pay-back. There is nothing worse than working 12 hour shifts in the mall doing eye exams. It gets even...
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