h3After the Accountable
Care Act, physicians face
a new world./h3
strongBy William L. Rich III, MD/strongbr /
The passage of the Patient Protection and
Accountable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 marked
the culmination of the US government…
Word From the Cutting Edge
Early in March 2011, emGlaucoma Today/em held the
third annual Cutting Edge: Innovative Glaucoma
Surgery Symposium. Iqbal Ike Ahmed, MD, and
Richard Lewis, MD, served as the course directors
of this 1-day event that brought together clinic…
Maximizing the Benefits of Topical Therapy
The options for the topical medical therapy of
glaucoma have greatly increased during the past
3 decades. The introduction of new classes of
medication, often with several choices within a
class, lower IOP more effectively than ever before. Th…
The Zhongshan Angle Closure Prevention Trial
By the year 2020, primary angleclosure
glaucoma (PACG) will
account for half of the 11 million
people who are estimated to be
bilaterally blind from glaucoma.sup1/sup China is
home to the majority of people with
PACG worldwide. An estima…
Marketing Methodologies for High-Growth Practices
As you are passing between your clinic’s examination
rooms on a tiring Thursday evening—your
back still sore from the previous afternoon’s surgeries—
your assistant grabs your shoulder to
alert you that tonight is the deadline to renew…
Why Do I Perform Research?
When my 2 1/2-year-old son asks, “Why are
trees green? Why did Mama sneeze? Why
did baby Alex spit up?” I smile. I smile
because I am amazed at how inquisitive
human beings are, even at such a young age. I smile
because others once had th…