The tick survives by doing what natural selection equipped it to do. To a scientist, this is not a lowly devotion. For glaucoma, as an example, he recommends multivitamins plus a long list of specific vitamins and minerals combined with a dozen or more natural products. Of course, we should keep an open mind and support further research. Prepare to explain why you recommended supplements of unknown safety and efficacy, of unknown purity and potency, and of unknown mechanism of action or possible interaction.
Board certification is an important issue for optometry.
Suddenly, insurance companies and HMOs will open the floodgates of reimbursement. Optometry will be able to document patient records and code more efficiently. Unfortunately, board certification would be used not as a shield to enhance the profession, but a sword to surgically remove non-board certified optometrists from the provider panels. Bradley Kardatzke, O.D., Irving, Texas.