The MOD Pod
The MOD Pod

03.22.22

Optometric Rights • Myopia • MGD

To start off the episode, Rasika Whitesell, OD, talks about how optometric legislation, particularly that affecting scope of practice, can be changed without OD knowledge or approval (00:48). Vittorio Mena, OD, MS, and co-author Katie Connolly, OD, FAAO, then discuss guidelines for managing myopia (8:48), and Hardeep Kataria, OD, FAAO, closes out the episode by explaining how intense pulsed light and thermal pulsation work, when to use them, and more (18:19).

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