...in the last ten or even twenty years, optometrsists have either gained the legislative privilege and educational preparation to diagnose and manage most of the common forms of glaucoma. The ophthalmologist might find it heartening then, that a referral from a more progressive optometrist might not be a false positive referral (one that is assumed to have glaucoma but doesn’t require medical treatment). In these cases, the optometrists will liekly refer a patient who may have an advancing form of glaucoma that may not be amenable to a single or even dual topical therapy.

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