Is this becoming a rarity and pushed less during training?
When I was undergrad 10 years ago and worked as a tech at a practice two Docs were what I would consider Comprehensive Ophthalmology.
One day was for LASIK and laser procedures. They obviously had a busy cataract practice doing toric and MF IOLs. Both did a decent about of plastics like Blephs and even some Strab work on kids and adults. They had a very busy Retina clinic doing injections for your "straight forward" wet AMD and Diabetic patients with some lasers in there. Now they did refer out some things when they felt uncomfortable.
I think this type of practice was more attainable because it was in a smaller city with about ~150,000 or so in population that was fed by smaller towns in the Midwest.
I assume they did very well financially and were obviously always very busy.
But with the push being more specialized nowadays I was just seeing how often now newer grads would even consider a practice like this? Or is it even looked down upon?
When I was undergrad 10 years ago and worked as a tech at a practice two Docs were what I would consider Comprehensive Ophthalmology.
One day was for LASIK and laser procedures. They obviously had a busy cataract practice doing toric and MF IOLs. Both did a decent about of plastics like Blephs and even some Strab work on kids and adults. They had a very busy Retina clinic doing injections for your "straight forward" wet AMD and Diabetic patients with some lasers in there. Now they did refer out some things when they felt uncomfortable.
I think this type of practice was more attainable because it was in a smaller city with about ~150,000 or so in population that was fed by smaller towns in the Midwest.
I assume they did very well financially and were obviously always very busy.
But with the push being more specialized nowadays I was just seeing how often now newer grads would even consider a practice like this? Or is it even looked down upon?