Kevin, M.D. says that The retail clinic era is over, and … pharmacy-based clinics are doomed to fail. Corporations are finding out what primary care doctors already know: it’s hard to make money only doing office visits. Ophthalmologists make bank doing procedures. I guess the problem wi...

The mainstream media and the White House are trying to alienate Rush Limbaugh because of his comment, now a meme, “I want Obama to fail.” Rush is always right. I would have said, “Obama is going to fail, and I want everyone to see that he fails because he is a liberal and so are hi...

In my first edition of Answers to Your Search Questions - Part 1, I answered 20 questions…as a public service. I’m at it again in Part 2. Again the idea is that people have come to my site from a web search, looking for answers. I am now going to explicitly answer them (explicitly as in ...

You may not realize it, but I know the web page you visited just before coming to my site. So for example, if you went to Google and did a search for “optometry blog,� I see in my logs that you just came from the site “http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&fkt=1859&fsdt=5568&q=opto...

I keep hearing this type of comment: “I don’t understand you. I’ve read your blog when you were in private practice versus now. I don’t think you know what you want out of life.” They seem to be saying that I’m a flip flopper and must be some unhappy individual wh...

Here is the scenario. One doctor can own a Wal-Mart contract (or a Sam’s Club contract for that manner) for more than one location at the same time. Wal-Mart usually decides to do this if the locations are struggling with volume and/or having a hard time finding someone to fill the location. C...

It is interesting that some private practice docs can’t seem to tell the difference between Kleenex and Puffs- I mean 1-800Contacts and other retailers of soft contact lenses. This article was written in October 2006, but certain items are worth repeating in 2008: …optometrist Wiley Curt...

I just was contacted by Review of Optometry. Apparently, they didn’t want any comment from me, but they were hoping that I knew the name of an optometrist in Utah that is vocal about 1-800 type stuff (apparently not me, just any other Utah O.D.). So, Utah ODs if you want to comment on the whol...

Wal-Mart recently announced in a letter that they are “excited to announce a long term alliance between Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club and 1-800 CONTACTS..” May Heaven help us, because 1-800 sure isn’t going to. I promptly wrote the following E-mail to Dr. Patel, Wal-Mart’s Director o...