The Fine Art Of Prescribing Glasses Without Making A Spectacle Of Yourself

Award-winning text can help every clinician -- beginning and experienced --have more satisfied patients. Through 150 case studies, the book helps you solve everyday problems in refraction. It explores and explains the multitude of variables that can lead to patient complaints, giving logical answers to many different kinds of situations. The result will be more wise decisions in diagnosis and prescribing. Best Medical Book of the Year award (American Medical Writers Assn.).

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Unique in the subject of clinical optics, optometry and refraction. Any language, any time, any sub-speciality. The base of the pyramid in the art of refraction, for simple glasses, contact lenses, refractive surgery, ... Taking the opportunity of this review, We would like to invite you for World Ophthalmology Congress 2006, Feb 19-24th 2006, São Paulo, Brazil. Visit the site. (...)

I read this during my second year of ophthalmology residency and found it to be incredibly useful. It is easy to read with real, hilarious cases to explain the optics. The authors have a great sense of humor. Believe it or not, optics can be funny. I checked it out from our library, but bought my own copy for home because it is so good.