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

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after that fake surgeon butchers a few hundred eyes

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And, unfortunately, there are some of us who think about these few hundred and how their plight could have been prevented. Perhaps by only allowing groups operating under the current guidelines and regulations (regardless of the letters...because, again, these procedures could be taught over a long period of time to an optometrist working with/for an ophth even without a more formal fellowship. Eyedoc may disagree, but I think it's somewhat feasible. It's definitely not a weekend, weeklong, or even month-long process though. It's long.) rather than letting them go off and create their own.

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Well it's definitely more important to remain ideologically pure to the tenets of libertarianism and pure laissez faire capitalism than to worry about the real-world implications of those policies.

Duh!

Why are we doing this when 48 states ban it?
That's sort of like voting for Mondale....

Let the free markets decide.

Because our state is backwards as frick in a lot of regards

As a surgeon, I have always felt that if you don't possess the knowledge and skills to treat/fix damn near all possible scenarios, complications, and curveballs you may encounter during the procedure, then you probably shouldn't be doing the procedure in the first place.

Without knowing much about eye surgery, I would suspect that MD's would me more likely to accomplish this than OD's.

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Let the free markets decide.

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I'm a very big proponent of this and it was hilarious but wow inducing to see SFP roll with this in the thread last year on this very topic this thread is about. frick that guy is good even when you know for a fact that he's wrong on the topic.

Is there a shortage of people with the necessary skills to perform these procedures? Or do optometrists just want a bigger piece of the pie? Genuine question. If demand outweighs supply for the procedures, then the obvious solution to me (a layperson) would be to create more ophthalmology residency positions, rather than enabling non-doctors to perform the procedures.

If the procedures are simple and safe, then the argument boils down to money - which both sides (optometrists and ophthalmologists) will fight tooth and nail for.