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Editorial: A View from the Ivory Basement

Bill B. Rainey, OD, MS, FAAO, FCOVDA
VTOD.org Editor and Administrator

The Psychology of Optometry - February 2009

Those who desire to receive the best possible health care often insist on being treated by doctors who practice "holistic" medicine. According to my Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary (22nd edition, 1977 - give me a break, I used it in optometry school!), holism is "the conception of a man as a functioning whole." Does this mean there are doctors who do not practice holistically? If they do, then IMHO they are not very good doctors. ( more... )

Guest Editorial: IMHO ( In My Humble Opinion )

Guest Contributor: Kenneth C. Koslowe OD, MS, FCOVDA
Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University School of Optometry and the Hadassah Academic College of Optometry, Israel

VT: An International Perspective - February 2009

I have a somewhat unique viewpoint on Optometry in general and VT in particular having been educated in the USA and also having started my career there and then continued overseas. My generation has also seen the transition of Optometry from a drugless profession to a heavily medicated . . . or is that medical, one. It was my privilege to receive my VT education directly from Drs. Suchoff, Flax, Birnbaum, Forrest, and Fitzgerald along with some lectures from Drs. Gerry Getman and Amiel Francke. ( more... )

Archives of previous articles

• November 2008 - Just what IS "VTOD"? (and how do you spell it?) by Dr. Bill B. Rainey
• November 2008 - Just what IS "Optometric Vision Therapy"? by Dr. David A. Goss