admit patients, administer medications, review medication histories,
administer anesthetic and dilating medications and discharge patients
once instead of twice. Those streamlined efficiencies shave about 10%
off the time spent managing patients and could let you perform more
cases in a day.
Thinking ahead
Even with increased scheduling efficiency, surgeons will have a tough
time breaking even under Medicare's current payment structure. But
healthcare professionals always strive to find better ways of caring for
patients. Clinical innovations such as incredibly accurate biometry,
improved phaco machines and the development of femtosecond lasers
eventually outdate assumed best practices and and older paradigms.
We're on the cusp of that happening with same-day bilateral cataract
surgery.
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Dr. Arshinoff (ifix2is@gmail.com) is directing partner of York Finch Eye
Associates in Toronto, Canada, and co-president of the International Society of
Bilateral Cataract Surgeons.
