If religions made laws like politicians do, here's how it might have gone in the Sinai Desert some 3,300 years ago. Bubba, the sheepherders are lobbying us like crazy. They say the competition's too tough and they've gotta have help. By the way, they've been very generous to the Ark Fund lately. Okay, from now on, no one eats pork.
Pigs smell bad anyhow.
In plain language, that means that the eye surgeon either does post-op checkups himself or supervises whoever else does. He can't send the patient to an optometrist for follow-up care, as many ophthalmologists do. Outwardly, this might look like another food fight between featherbedding MDs and their non-MD rivals, the optometrists. It is that, but it is also a lot more. One group of ophthalmologists is after another.