Archive for October, 2007

Geraint Griffiths - In The Hot Seat

Published October 25th, 2007 by Jane Macnaughton.

An interview with Geraint Griffiths, MSc, MCOptom launches our new regular post, In the Hot Seat where we interview prominent members of the profession to find out their news, views and idiosyncrasies.
Geraint talks candidly to Jane Macnaughton on his view of Sportvision, preparation for 2012 and playing the violin.

Tell us a bit about Sport Vision; […]

Clinical Conundrums: Case history 6 The latent hypermetrope

Published October 22nd, 2007 by Jane Macnaughton.

As a locum I occasionally come across previous practitioner’s work which raises an eyebrow. However, I came across this young man recently:
Age 10, routine review, asymptomatic.
Previous practitioner reports: +0.50 R&L. No Rx given. 
Today the findings were –
RV   6/5   +1.50 =   6/5
LV   6/5   +1.50 =   6/5 
I believe that the level of plus has been previously undetected […]

I am off again! This time to Burkina Faso

Published October 18th, 2007 by Priya Morjaria.

Six weeks from now, while some of you shall be sitting in your testing rooms twiddling your thumbs due to the lack of volume in the run up to Christmas, I shall be more than fully booked and probably not have enough time to test all the patients lining up to see me!
I am off […]

Post card from Barbados: Horner’s or Gardener’s Syndrome?

Published October 14th, 2007 by David Cummins.

A fifty year old Caucasian lady called me in the middle of a busy clinic, in a panic. For the last 5 days, one of her pupils appeared much smaller than the other, the eye had been a little red and her vision in the eye seemed different.

Image reproduced from Clinical Ophthalmology (J Kanski) with […]

“I used to be Partially Sighted, now I am Visually Impaired.”

Published October 11th, 2007 by Jane Macnaughton.

The Problem: Bad labelling on food products. Why should this interest us as eyecare practitioners?
I came across David Armitage and his site recently whilst conducting some research for a lecture on the relevance of contrast sensitivity and contrast reserve when prescribing magnification to visually impaired patients.  This is what he has to say:
 
Hello I’m […]

Sub clinical or Sub Standard?

Published October 5th, 2007 by Peter Chapman.

Maybe I just attract problems into my clinics. Maybe there is a sign on my door saying..
“problems…then step this way�
In the last 2 weeks, I have seen 5 patients who suffer with Myasthenia Gravis. One patient looked at me shocked when I said I knew what it was as his neurologist had only seen 1 […]

Now an Optom but never an OO

Published October 2nd, 2007 by Jane Macnaughton.

Being plain ignorant has no excuses. For example, Scotch Salmon just conjures up images of the poor fish basted in whisky. I prefer Scottish Salmon after all and support the Scots rather than the Scotch as they run out onto the playing field. Leave the ‘Scotch’ in the bottle, please. 
I read a UK article recently […]

The AOP’s Employed Practitioner’s Conference

Published September 10th, 2007 by Jane Macnaughton.

[ October 28, 2007; ]  

For the first time ever, the AOP is holding a conference specifically aimed at the employed optometric community.

This great opportunity addresses some of the legal and other issues which particularly affect those optometrists who work within the employed sector.

David Gilbert, Flame Health’s training and development manager, along with a number of other high profile speakers will […]