Generate Optometry Referals By Informing Fellow Professionals.

The American Optometric Association has recently adopted a new definition for the word "optometrist". The new definition reads: "Doctors of Optometry are primary health care providers who diagnose, manage and treat conditions and diseases of the human eye and visual system as regulated by state law". As primary care providers it is the optometrists responsibility to learn as much as possible from other professionals whose interests and objectives overlap with his or her own. With rapidly occurrinq advancements and the larqe increase in specialties, today's physician cannot function at peak effectiveness without qood communication with colleagues in other areas of the health profession. Professionals must
become more dependent on each other for guidance and advice pertaininq to the patients. In the past the Optometric profession has not receivced the recoqnition it deserves. Therefore, it is the job of the optometrist to educate fellow professionals of the expertise and excellent diaqnostic skills he or she has to offer.