http://www.optoblog.com/2005/02/14/utah-optometrists-vs-ihc-hmo/ Personal Opinion Blog of David Langford Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:54:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.optoblog.com/2005/02/14/utah-optometrists-vs-ihc-hmo/comment-page-1/#comment-5 David Langford Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:12:21 +0000 /?p=25#comment-5 What doesn't make sense is that you're missing the whole issue. IHC has plenty of eye surgeons, the point is they don’t have enough optometrists, especially in the Valleys. Optometrists manage medical diagnoses all the time (uveitis, conjunctivitis, glaucoma, etc.) IHC panels optometrists outside the main population corridor in the state, but in the Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo, and Cache Valley areas they do not because they favor ophthalmology (read in: discriminate against optometry). The issue is not about needing eye surgeons. IHC patients need eye CARE. Yes, if the condition requires surgical management, then it goes to an ophthalmologist. For the patient, the more options the better. An optometrist and an ophthalmologist can treat non-surgical eye conditions, so why wouldn’t the patient want the option to go to the closest one to their house or to the ECP that they know and like? What doesn’t make sense is that you’re missing the whole issue. IHC has plenty of eye surgeons, the point is they don’t have enough optometrists, especially in the Valleys. Optometrists manage medical diagnoses all the time (uveitis, conjunctivitis, glaucoma, etc.) IHC panels optometrists outside the main population corridor in the state, but in the Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo, and Cache Valley areas they do not because they favor ophthalmology (read in: discriminate against optometry).
The issue is not about needing eye surgeons. IHC patients need eye CARE. Yes, if the condition requires surgical management, then it goes to an ophthalmologist. For the patient, the more options the better. An optometrist and an ophthalmologist can treat non-surgical eye conditions, so why wouldn’t the patient want the option to go to the closest one to their house or to the ECP that they know and like?

]]> http://www.optoblog.com/2005/02/14/utah-optometrists-vs-ihc-hmo/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Chuck U. Farley Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:47:26 +0000 /?p=25#comment-4 IHC needs surgeons. Optometrists do not go to medical school and are not surgeons. It seems obvious why they hire eye surgeons to do their surgery. IHC needs surgeons. Optometrists do not go to medical school and are not surgeons. It seems obvious why they hire eye surgeons to do their surgery.

]]> http://www.optoblog.com/2005/02/14/utah-optometrists-vs-ihc-hmo/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Chuck U. Farley Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:34:35 +0000 /?p=25#comment-3 IHC needs surgeons. Optometrists do not go to medical, and thus are not surgeons. Doesn't this make sense to you? IHC needs surgeons. Optometrists do not go to medical, and thus are not surgeons. Doesn’t this make sense to you?

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