Christine Jordan SextonMarch 8, 2024
3min0
'In the (2024) eyeball wars, neither side blinked.'
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Christine Jordan SextonMarch 8, 2024Christine Jordan SextonMay 4, 2023
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Lawmakers OK'd a bill that essentially bans non-medical doctors from using the word 'physician' in ads or with patients.
Christine Jordan SextonApril 18, 2023
9min0
Rep. Randy Fine was the Republican driving the opposition.
Christine Jordan SextonSeptember 23, 2021
5min13209
Diaz opposes vaccine mandates, but supports private business decisions on them.
Guest AuthorApril 7, 2021
6min1198
We cannot allow patients to be placed at risk by watering down surgical safety standards in Florida.
Guest AuthorMarch 29, 2021
6min8557
This misinformation does no one any good.
Drew WilsonFebruary 2, 20215min1914
The bills would allow optometrists to perform certain types of eye surgery and prescribe medications.
Drew WilsonApril 25, 2019
4min739
Online orders would still be allowed, but an in-person exam would be required.
Peter SchorschMarch 28, 20179min198
Florida’s Eyeball Wars rage on in Tallahassee, as optometrists continue pushing a bill allowing them to perform laser surgeries despite a potentially dangerous lack of medical training. Richard Miniter, the chief executive officer of American Media Institute, broke down the issue in-depth with a three-part series co-authored with Joseph Hammond, in which he describes how […]
Phil AmmannMarch 24, 2017
4min298
The nation’s largest association of physicians is the latest group to come out against a bill at the center of Florida’s so-called “Eyeball Wars” between ophthalmologists and optometrists. On Thursday, American Medical Association President and CEO James Madara sent a letter to House Health & Human Services Committee chair Travis Cummings, in which he called […]