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re: Optometry: LA HB 1065/SB 568: What if your Louisiana Eye Surgeon is NOT an MD?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 3:45 pm to Traffic Circle
Posted on 5/20/14 at 3:45 pm to Traffic Circle
are they voting today? whats the word
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 3:51 pm to snackpack
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are they voting today? whats the word
Wants to operate on your eyes....
Can't use his own to read...
Posted on 5/20/14 at 6:16 pm to jamarkus
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Take some emergency room call at 2am if you really wanna help. Don't just cherry pick the easy things.
what "easy things" does this refer to?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 6:25 pm to 90proofprofessional
Just wait till some cowboy OD takes on patients/cases he isn't qualified to treat/perform. Between malpractice premiums rising, MD/DO smear campaigns, and a public outcry for legislative changes this bill will be reversed quickly.
Blind Eye will give his "I'm qualified and I'm not a cowboy spiel" but it won't stop some of his colleagues from ruining it for all of them. This all will be but a blip on the radar as far as eye care is concerned. Unfortunately someone is going to get unnecessarily hurt.
Blind Eye will give his "I'm qualified and I'm not a cowboy spiel" but it won't stop some of his colleagues from ruining it for all of them. This all will be but a blip on the radar as far as eye care is concerned. Unfortunately someone is going to get unnecessarily hurt.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 6:28 pm to LATigerdoc
That is insane.
I have X-linked Retinoschisis (it's very rare) and only go to UAB for my important check-up's .
For glasses/contacts Wal-Mart is fine, but I would shite a brick if I had a retinal detachment and found out my eye surgeon wasn't an MD.
I have a regular local "eye doctor" and a Retinal specialist at the eye foundation @ UAB.
I hope this does not pass in Louisiana.
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I have X-linked Retinoschisis (it's very rare) and only go to UAB for my important check-up's .
For glasses/contacts Wal-Mart is fine, but I would shite a brick if I had a retinal detachment and found out my eye surgeon wasn't an MD.
I have a regular local "eye doctor" and a Retinal specialist at the eye foundation @ UAB.
I hope this does not pass in Louisiana.
Support the Foundation Fighting Blindness!
This post was edited on 5/20/14 at 7:01 pm
Posted on 5/20/14 at 6:34 pm to YipSkiddlyDooo
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Between malpractice premiums rising, MD/DO smear campaigns, and a public outcry for legislative changes
has that stuff happened in oklahoma and kentucky?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 6:36 pm to Hater Bait
I'd shite a brick too. Hell, I'd shite a brick if I found out a general ophthalmologist and not a fellowship trained, retinal surgeon was doing my retinal surgery.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 6:36 pm to 90proofprofessional
Can't people chose if the want an MD or OD?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 6:51 pm to guttata
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I'd shite a brick too. Hell, I'd shite a brick if I found out a general ophthalmologist and not a fellowship trained, retinal surgeon was doing my retinal surgery.
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the difference here is.... the general ophthalmologist wouldn't try to do something he wasn't trained or qualified to do
I'd shite a brick too. Hell, I'd shite a brick if I found out a general ophthalmologist and not a fellowship trained, retinal surgeon was doing my retinal surgery.
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the difference here is.... the general ophthalmologist wouldn't try to do something he wasn't trained or qualified to do
This post was edited on 5/20/14 at 6:57 pm
Posted on 5/20/14 at 6:51 pm to guttata
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I'd shite a brick too. Hell, I'd shite a brick if I found out a general ophthalmologist and not a fellowship trained, retinal surgeon was doing my retinal surgery.
One thing bad about a rare eye disease, is having the young fellowship doctors at a research hospital checking you out.
It's like you're a zoo animal, but I understand why it's important.
Are you a doctor?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:23 pm to Hater Bait
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For glasses/contacts Wal-Mart is fine, but I would shite a brick if I had a retinal detachment and found out my eye surgeon wasn't an MD.
Please read the bill. It doesn't give ODs the ability to perform this kind of surgery. And they won't fight for this in the future, either. They want very minimalistly invasive stuff, and, according to my old optometrist who is big into pushing this legislation and has had talks about it with me before, there isn't any desire to push toward cataract or retinal surgery or anything through the full thickness of the eye. The real problem most (at least I) have with the bill is designing a two-tier system with potentially more-poorly trained professionals performing procedures than the other group, which has been performing them for years and has a set of standards that work quite well.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:25 pm to Hater Bait
I've never met an optometrist who claims they are qualified/trained to do retinal surgery. Have you?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:32 pm to guttata
Nah the bill just allows blowing a hole in the eye with a laser....
Noninvasive?
Noninvasive?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:36 pm to guttata
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:I've never met an optometrist who claims they are qualified/trained to do retinal surgery. Have you?
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nah, "just" glaucoma surgery. They're all hanging out at the Capital instead of in med school.
:I've never met an optometrist who claims they are qualified/trained to do retinal surgery. Have you?
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nah, "just" glaucoma surgery. They're all hanging out at the Capital instead of in med school.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:41 pm to MasterofTigerBait
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Did you not know what kind of profession you were going into? If you wanted to perform surgery why didn't you go to medical school
Yes they knew. They also knew they either couldn't get into medical school or wouldn't be able to pass medical school. They are grabbing through contributions to politicians and legislation what they weren't capable of achieving through education.
This is yet another example of the dumbing down of medicine in the U.S.
This post was edited on 5/20/14 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:44 pm to guttata
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I've never met an optometrist who claims they are qualified/trained to do retinal surgery. Have you?
Nope. I went to several optometrist when I was a kid.
They ALL told me I had "lazy eye".
At 15, I went to a young optometrist at Walmart and he told me, "You need to get to UAB, Something is wrong"
He is still my "regular" eye doc today, but I also go to the eye foundation.
I found out I had X-linked Retinoschisis.
My optometrist wouldn't dare try to cut on my eyes.
I have no idea what the law is In Louisiana.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:49 pm to Hater Bait
Neither do our politicians
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:50 pm to LATigerdoc
Wake up and call some of these people before tomorrow's vote. Last count it was close
Posted on 5/20/14 at 8:14 pm to Hopeful Doc
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It doesn't give ODs the ability to perform this kind of surgery. And they won't fight for this in the future, either
Nor should they, it takes a specialist to perform
retinal surgery.
Just like, probably, you wouldn't
want your family doctor to perform brain surgery..
Posted on 5/20/14 at 8:16 pm to Hater Bait
Except that your family doc graduated med school..
Psychologist / neurosurgeon is the more appropriate analogy
Psychologist / neurosurgeon is the more appropriate analogy
This post was edited on 5/20/14 at 8:18 pm
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