Minimal effective dose: Just what you need and nothing more

OK, I know what you are thinking. Am I not the same guy who has been spouting off about our new dry eye world of “and,” not “either/or?” It is only a little more than a year in this new treatment paradigm, and I am already changing my tune?
Fear not, me droogies! The minimal effective dose (MED) is as fundamental a concept in medicine as can be. It is as efficient as a haiku, containing the poet’s art in the tiniest of packages, and as elegant as a Picasso drawing in pencil, the art shining through the simple black and white.
The MED is the medical equivalent of a