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• OMIC and The Academy can help you educate your patients about diabetic eye diseases.
  

  Visit OMIC’s Consent Form and Clinical Issues libraries for patient information and related materials. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness among adults aged 20 to 70 years.* From diabetic retinopathy to cataracts and glaucoma, the Academy can help you explain every eye disease you might treat in your patients with diabetes. Available in several […]

• Join the CAPP (Californians Allied for Patient Protection) Fight >> MICRA Critical to Protecting Ophthalmic Practice Across the United States
  

  OMIC is a member of CAPP. The Californians Allied for Patient Protection (CAPP) initiative is critical tort reform that has been instrumental in keeping malpractice costs manageable and protecting patients access to health care. Because California initiatives are often a bellweather for tort actions in other parts of the country, the fight to maintain MICRA […]

• OMIC Sponsors the Annual State Affairs Star Awards Breakfast >> 2013 << Recognizing State Ophthalmology Societies for their Critical Work and Advocacy Including Recent Initiatives in Oregon and South Carolina
  

  The Secretariat for State Affairs and OMIC congratulates the following state societies which have been selected as recipients of the 2013 State Affairs Star Award. Oregon Academy of Ophthalmology Join Your State Representative for a Free Glaucoma Screening South Carolina Society of Ophthalmology Operation Patient First We applaud each of these societies, their physician leaders, […]

• Disaster Mitigation and Management: What Ophthalmic Practices Should Know
  

  From Ocular Surgery News: Within 3 days of Hurricane Katrina wreaking havoc on New Orleans in August 2005, Marguerite B. McDonald, MD, FACS, made the painful but inevitable decision to close her refractive practice permanently. McDonald’s office was on the seventh floor of a building, although water rose only to the third floor. “Still, the […]