Post by Logan on Feb 21, 2016 8:46:39 GMT -6
Turf war over eye care erupts in the Legislature -- and on the radio
JUNEAU — A decades-old battle inside Alaska’s eye care industry has flared up again in Juneau in a nasty, tongue-twisting turf war between the state’s optometrists and ophthalmologists.
The fight centers on a bill that currently sits in a Senate committee — and the two sides can’t even agree about what it does.
Optometrists — health care professionals with four years of graduate school but no doctorate of medicine — say the bill would bring outdated state laws in line with advances in technology and training in their field.
The ophthalmologists — doctors who finished medical school and residencies — say the measure, Senate Bill 55, amounts to a dangerous expansion in the scope of work that optometrists are allowed to perform.
Read more: www.adn.com/article/20160220/turf-war-over-eye-care-erupts-legislature-and-radio
JUNEAU — A decades-old battle inside Alaska’s eye care industry has flared up again in Juneau in a nasty, tongue-twisting turf war between the state’s optometrists and ophthalmologists.
The fight centers on a bill that currently sits in a Senate committee — and the two sides can’t even agree about what it does.
Optometrists — health care professionals with four years of graduate school but no doctorate of medicine — say the bill would bring outdated state laws in line with advances in technology and training in their field.
The ophthalmologists — doctors who finished medical school and residencies — say the measure, Senate Bill 55, amounts to a dangerous expansion in the scope of work that optometrists are allowed to perform.
Read more: www.adn.com/article/20160220/turf-war-over-eye-care-erupts-legislature-and-radio