Eye Care for the Internist

As a consequence of limited time devoted to eye disease in medical school, highly technical, not readily available, and unfamiliar instruments used to examine the eye, and ophthalmic progress notes that are often indecipherable to the internist, many nonophthalmologist physicians view ocular complaints and disease as impossible to evaluate meaningfully and something to refer to an eye care provider. One may think that the main goal of this issue is to unravel the mystery and shed light on an organ that is difficult to examine and has diseases they rarely encounter.
Source: Medical Clinics of North America - Category: Primary Care Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research