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Posted: 4:17 PM Mar 12, 2010
Optometrists Services Expanded, No Surgery
West Virginia's House of Delegates has approved expanding the services that optometrists can perform, but has stopped short of laser eye surgery.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's House of Delegates has approved expanding the services that optometrists can perform, but has stopped short of laser eye surgery.
Friday's 84-18 vote sends the Senate a down-sized version of the bill it had passed earlier.
The measure has spurred sometimes heated debate between optometrists and ophthalmologists over the training needed to perform the procedures involved.
The House Health and Human Resources Committee removed a key part of the bill earlier this week by amending out three types of laser surgery. The remaining procedures include certain injections.
Only one state, Oklahoma, allows optometrists to perform laser surgery.
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Posted by: Chase
on Jun 21, 2010 at 12:31 PM
I am an Optometrist in Oklahoma, the things we do involve no cutting or suturing. They are simple procedures that people in this state would have to drive 2 hours in some small cities to gain access to. Optometrist have 4 years of school strictly on how vision works and patient care. If you look at the education of an opthalmologist I do not disagree that they are fully capable of what we do, but are trained SOLELY in surgery and a small part of refraction (eye glasses/contact lenses). They spend 2 weeks on the eye the 4 years of medical school and then serve the next 4 (yes 4 more years than us) on EVERYTHING we learn, and clocking in time for practicing surgery. So next time your government says we are not capable of surgery that is a bold face lie. We should never cut or enter the eyeball but pressing a joystick to fire a focused laser does not take much skill. Make sure you are educated on the definition of surgery plucking an eyelash that is turned is technically surgery.
Posted by: Cj
on Mar 14, 2010 at 09:10 AM
I think that optometrists have their place to help with patients vision but they have not been trained to the extent that ophthalmologists have been. They should never be allowed to perform surgery. If they want to do that then they need to go to medical school and get all the years of training that the eye surgeons do.
Posted by: Pat
on Mar 12, 2010 at 08:47 PM
Sounds good to me. Lets see how it turns out in OK?
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