The Optometric Minute

Prescribe Multiple Eyewear for Your Patient’s Total Needs

July 27, 2016

Eric M. White, OD, prescribes multiple eyewear to meet a patient’s total lifestyle needs. This includes everyday eyeglasses with Transitions, polarized driving sunwear, occasional-use CLs and computer eyewear. He prescribes in the exam room and offers healthcare financing to help patients fulfill his full treatment plan.

Prescribe Multiple Pairs
Talk to Patients About Vision While Driving

PRESCRIBE FROM EXAM CHAIR. Prescribe what the patients needs visually in every aspect of their lives, offer multiple prescriptions.

ADDRESS ALL NEEDS. Offer visual solutions for sun protection for everyday glasses with Transitions, sunwear with darker lenses for driving and computer glasses that help absorb blue light, and relieve eye strain, while using digital devices.

OFFER PATIENT FINANCING. Help patients purchase all the eyewear you prescribe them by offering them patient financing through a company like CareCredit. Purchases like multiple pairs, and even refractive surgery, can be paid for in installments with this medical credit card.

ASK ABOUT DRIVING. Ask patients how many hours they spend behind the windshield of a car. Then, prescribe sunwear that darken more than their everyday eyewear with Transitions for all their time in cars.

PROTECT AGAINST BLUE LIGHT. The good thing about prescribing Transitions, and driving sunwear, is that these UV-protecting lenses can also guard against harmful blue light.

Eric M. White, OD, owns Complete Family Vision Care Optometry  in San Diego, Calif. Contact him: idol@drericwhite.com

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