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A colleague with whom I share office space was chatting with me the other day about IOLs, now that she’s of the age where considerations about cataract surgery become more personal. While we have very different practices, we enjoy comparing notes and she remarked that she’d rarely recommend any of the “deluxe” IOLs on the …

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Thanks to our colleague, Dr. Curt Baxstrom, for sharing this link on VTODs on Facebook to an article that he co-authored with Dr. Jason Clopton on Vestibular and Visual Motion Processing in Infantile Esotropia, For those of you who may not be familiar with Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry, it is the only publication of …

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Thanks to our colleague, Dr. Gary Etting who brought a story to my attention that I vaguely recall hearing about before. It features Herbert Wertheim, O.D. who began attending the Southern College of Optometry on scholarship in 1963. It’s safe to say that it wasn’t an academic scholarship, as Dr. Wertheim struggled as a dropout … …

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I had the pleasure of giving a lecture at the OVDRA meeting last month on the Art of Prescribing Small Amounts of Prism. Based on a few questions I received both at the end of the lecture and during the balance of the meeting, I thought that some further discussion would be helpful, particularly at …

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I just came across an interesting document published last June (2025) from England. It is titled Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) and Visual Difficulties, co-authored by Dr James Gilchrist, BSc, MPhil, PhD, FCOptom, Independent Researcher in Optometry & Vision Science, UK, and Dr Aleksandra Mankowska, BSc, PhD, MCOptom, School of Optometry & Vision Science, Univers...

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