re: Optometry: LA HB 1065/SB 568: What if your Louisiana Eye Surgeon is NOT an MD?

Put your money where your mouth is- if you really have a problem or need surgery - please go to your local optom or NPor PA & let them fix you -& when there's a complication-let them handle it. You may not end up seeing too well or may even lose a limb but it will be cheap & convenient

It ain't over til the Brown-educated former pre-med student sings. I don't believe that deep in his heart, Bobby Jindal believes a nonMD is qualified to do your eye surgery by shooting holes in the eye with a laser.

Plus can u imagine him trying to explain/justify this in a presidential debate when the topic of healthcare inevitably comes up?

Quality up?

And you keep missing the fact that the cost won't be down.

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Put your money where your mouth is- if you really have a problem or need surgery - please go to your local optom or NPor PA & let them fix you -& when there's a complication-let them handle it. You may not end up seeing too well or may even lose a limb but it will be cheap & convenient

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If it were only as simple as just going to a MD and having no worries. Studies published in JAMA and other peer reviewed journals show the diagnostic accuracy of physicians in general to be dismal, and unless a person knows how to research their provider and facility, the risk of complications and errors is a crapshoot. I have had many discussions over dinner with physicians in my family concerning major screw-ups by other physicians, and which ones to avoid at all cost.

I think the bottom line is that the Opthamologists that were starting to get a little cheesy advertising LASIK and Cataract surgery are about to get a little competition.

Whose alter are you?

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Whose alter are you?

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I am no alter, not even in the medical field. The turf war fascinates me. And the MDs who pretend to be all that and are now threatened, are interesting to see squirm over this interesting development.

Tigerdoc, seems to me the charge for these procedures would drop over time if ODs start to perform them in significant numbers. Medicare and Insurance cos. will cut their reimbursement as they have done for NPs who practice independently. Also, has there been discussion on malpractice rates rising for the ODs who perform these procedures? Not arguing, just want your opinion.

Where's this all end?
Why would any group want to treat ONLY a post-operative condition s/p cataract surgery and 2 glaucoma procedures plus treat lid lesions?

All i can guess is that it's a push to get some so that you can come back again and take more.

There's a way to treat glaucoma, cataracts, and lid lesions.
It's called being a Medical Doctor and finishing an Ophthalmology Residency Program. The Match company takes applications from anybody who wants to pay the money to apply to the programs and med schools do the same.

If we split up the whole body and have people who just learned about that part take care of it, then where do we end up?

The thing about specialties in medicine is that you've already mastered a base knowledge about the whole inter-twined, inter-related human.

To just pick the body apart and claim you can be an expert in it is ignorant. If we follow this model as a state, we are going to end up with a system of treating and caring for people that has many mistakes and misdiagnoses.

Somebody earlier posted something to the extent they think there can be missteps when treated by an MD. Can you imagine if all your healthcare was performed by providers who never went to all the med school classes in the first place? Yeah people can miss stuff and the practice of medicine is not always 100%, but where are we going as a society if we don't even have our care provided by people who passed all the standard tests to complete the schooling?