Online eyewear retailer Warby Parker has given optometrists one more reason to dislike them. Now, in addition to offering customers a greater selection of eyewear at a lower cost than most brick-and-mortar eye doctors can offer, Warby Parker is introducing an online eye test.Read More
Many parents know that telltale itchiness, “goopiness,” and redness of their child’s eyes probably mean one thing: pink eye. Acute conjunctivitis is a common problem, affecting an estimated 6 million people each year in the U.S. But what many parents don’t know is that they shouldn’t automatically take a child with pink eye to the pediatrician. Here’s what to let your patients, and parents of patients, know about this eye condition.
Today’s health care consumers have high expectations. Even older generations — not just millennials — are tech-savvy, engaged patients who are turning to the Internet and social media to research doctors and health concerns.
Think business has to slow down for medical practices in the summer? Think again! The longer, lazy days of summer can be the perfect time to bring in more patients and more revenue – if you’re savvy about your marketing. Here are some ideas to beat the summer slump and boost business.
Do you think your patients are too smart to be influenced by health advice from celebrities? There’s no way educated adults would make medical decisions based on a viral Facebook post or an article about a movie star in the news, right? That’s what Valerie A. Jones, M.D., thought, too, until she Googled the HPV vaccine, curious to see what her patients might find. “I was disgusted, angry, and even saddened by what I found,” she wrote on KevinMD.com, describing the sensationalized, medically inaccurate stories that filled her search results.
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. That adds up to 700 people a day dying from preventable causes. A new book suggests that scheduling could reduce this statistic, and also proposes that time of day plays a bigger role than we might think in the success or failure of many tasks. Whether scheduling surgery or your lunch break, take a look at the research showing the difference that timing makes.
