In NZ Optics April 2018 issue, a frustrated Chalkeyes pondered: “Imagine if our clinical data could be anonymous and pooled. What learning is hidden in those little boxes on our screens from all our patients across the country or even the world¹?” I couldn’t agree more. Why are we wasting all this
At the end of the last column I was standing on a scaffolding five metres from the ground, getting a fresh coat of paint onto the roof and taking care to not
“Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning. Red sky at night, shepherds delight.” The Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software had me type this over and over. We had just decided that we were going to
I hate heights. Briefly, as a young man, I had no fear of them. I would happily get onto the roof, trailing cable from my valve radio and attach it to the TV aerial so I could pick up Radio Hauraki from Feilding in the daytime. The TV went out just as Dad was settling in after a hard day’s farming t
What every eyecare practitioner should know about visual-perceptual processing problems. In the world of optics, what an individual sees is of utmost importance and eye care professionals are impeccably trained to recognise and treat dysfunctions and anomalies related to the eye. The visual system,
Ophthalmologists are not surprised at the ongoing difficulties the District Health Boards (DHBs) are having with timely ophthalmology follow-up appointments. ‘Fight the queue’ has always been a challenge for all eye clinic workers, made worse by the advent of anti-VEGF treatments, which have massive
I have never been an employer. I have been a boss to a team of employees, but if the wages aren’t coming from your own pocket, it’s a different thing, is it not? For the most part, I have only worked for the corporate kind of boss: the one who is spending someone else’s money. It was only my earlie
After the Christchurch earthquakes, a paper titled, ‘Disorientated and immobile: the experiences of people with visual impairments during and after the Christchurch, NZ 2010 and 2011 earthquakes” appeared in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, written by Dr Gretchen Good, Dr Suzanne Phib
Perhaps I’m writing this article from the future, but I should really be writing this from the past as this is not a new debate for Chalkeyes, but one which has occupied both sides of this industry for far, far too long, yet still nothing has happened! Recent media coverage has highlighted the back
The Royal Australia New Zealand College of Ophthalmology (better known to all of us as RANZCO) has been very busy in the wider world of optometry recently. It’s initiatives in this area include a
There’s a saying, maybe Taoist, that ‘if you carry on the way you are going you will get to where you are going to’ and this may be true for the provision of eye care services in New Zealand.New