Oral Medications
Most all states provide optometrists some prescriptive authority
for oral meds. It's time for us to embrase these drugs as part
of our armamentarium.
These cases at left represent a token sampling of the patients
we have treated with oral medicines over the last 20 years.
It should be profoundly obvious that oral medicines can be
immensely helpful in managing a number of select eye diseases.
Optometric physicians and their patients are enjoying the
huge benefits of topically applied medications. Now it’s time
to fully embrace a different route of administration: the orally
administered medicines. So that we can put this subset of drugs
in perspective, realize that the internist must master hundreds
of medicines; we only need to master a baker’s dozen (give
or take) to treat the vast majority of ophthalmic diseases.
Let’s look at them by category.
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