Ophthalmic Physician

PIONEERING A NEW SPECIALTY IN MEDICINE

FROM JOHN R. MARTINELLI, OD, MD, FAAO

Someone has to own the patient's care.

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Optometry is sliding back to corporate refract-and-refer or micro-niches. Ophthalmology has gone almost entirely surgical. Nobody is managing the whole person — and our patients pay for it. There is another way. A new medical specialty, the Doctor of Ophthalmic Medicine. Join thousands of ODs rethinking what their role can be.

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Co-management no longer exists — you are the manager of your patient.

FROM THE FINE ART OF PATIENT MANAGEMENT

GO DEEPER

After 38 years in practice — and an MD detour in my 50's — I watched eye care fragment into a referral merry-go-round nobody owns. The answer is a new specialty: ODs who want to practice medically building on their foundation.

A New Specialty

Autonomy. Authority. Freedom.

This 6-Book Series teaches what school skipped: how to diagnose, treat, manage, and follow a patient until the problem is solved or controlled — including systemically. Available in paperback on Amazon or as direct PDF downloads.

The Fine Art of Patient Management

On ​Amazon​ & ​OP Press​​

Clinical scenarios and patient advocacy from the real-world, medicine in primary eye care, and the case for a new specialty — conversations for optometrists who want more and ophthalmologists who want to revisit the whole person.

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John R. Martinelli, OD, MD, FAAO — Ophthalmic Physician

PIONEERING A NEW SPECIALTY IN MEDICINE