You Call THAT eye care?
November 16th, 2006
Martin Sussman
I’m always amazed that eye doctors, optometrists and opticians are called eye care professionals. What kind of eye care do they really provide? NONE. Sure, if you go to them with an eye problem, they’ll fix it: with stronger and stronger glasses, expensive contacts, risky surgery, cataract surgery, glaucoma pills, etc. etc.
But the only promise they offer your vision is that it will get worse and worse.
That’s not real eye care, that’s eye-problem-fixing. They’re skilled at fixing any eye problem you bring, but guess what? You’ll be bringing them problem after problem, year after year, because they never teach you anything about REAL eye care.
What can you do to keep your eyes healthy? What can you do to maintain your eyesight? How do you keep yourself from needing cataract surgery? From going half blind, or worse, from macular degeneration?
These “eye care” professionals don’t have any answers for any of that. What’s even worse, they denigrate and dismiss anybody who suggests that there are answers!
Some might say that eye care professionals are just concerned about making money. I’m not sure that’s their only motivation, but let’s face it – they’re not really interested in offering REAL eye care.
We know more about how to care for our teeth than we know about how to care for our eyes. Yet, if you were faced with the choice, which would you rather lose?
Fifty or so years ago, people were faced with a similar choice. Back then, no doctor believed that proper exercise or a nutritious diet would keep you healthier. “There’s no proof,” they’d say. (That may be hard to believe nowadays, but that was their position back then.)
Well, people took matters into their own hands. They started running, doing yoga, meditating, eating right, etc. etc. They got themselves healthier by themselves. They realized that health care professionals weren’t going to get them healthy or even keep them healthy. It was only after this groundswell of individuals taking care of themselves that researchers began to study exactly how all of these activities benefited the body.
Wait for the research, wait for the proof – that might seem like the logical thing to do, but how much should your eyesight suffer while you wait?
Just because something isn’t proven yet, it doesn’t mean that it’s not effective. It just means that the health care industry has decided to not bother to research that issue.
So then, what is REAL eye care? I’ll address this in future posts.
If you want to find out more right away, read The Program for Better Vision book. It’s all in there.
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5 Comments Add your own
1. Marty Sussman | November 27th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
by Martin Sussman
I’m sorry to hear that you’ve had such troubles with trying to find a sympathetic eye doctor in your area. In total, there may be only 3,000 or so eye doctors that I would recommend across the country, so some areas are under-served.
Most eye doctors prefer to just do a quick, superficial examination – rather than spend an hour or more with you, really examining your vision in depth.
There may not be enough interest in some areas of the country for these doctors to do that kind of in depth examination on a regular basis, so some of these doctors also practice conventionally and others might maintain a home office so they can practice the way they want.
Some things to know about the optometrists on our Select Referral List:
1. We recommend these doctors only because they have told us that they would be willing to prescribe an under-corrected prescription to those patients who ask for it. (Read more about this at http://www.bettervision.com/behavioraloptometrists.html)
2. These eye doctors are independent of the Cambridge Institute and as such, may have different opinions about The Program for Better Vision or the other products we offer.
3. We regularly update our Select Referral List adding and deleting doctors as the situation calls for.
4. Some of the eye doctors on the Select Referral List may offer a vision therapy system of their own. That’s the $80.hour fee you mention. These therapy sessions may or may not be appropriate for you.
5. These eye doctors will not help you use The Program for Better Vision, the Read Without Glasses Method or any of our other products. Call or email us if you have questions.
2. H.C. Benson | July 10th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Although I am unable to determine who wrote the top part of this thread, I am in substantial agreement about the assessment of the current state of the medical arts.
But I find myself rather critical of dentistry as well. For some of the reasons why, my essay on dentist misbehavior and profiteering and the followup comments are on my blog
eurekaideasunlimited.blogspot.com
and in the General Health section of
Skin Cell Forum. These might sound a cautionary note for those in the habit of trusting their dentists to make the ultimate decisions about their teeth.
Both on my blog and on Skin Cell Forum, the thread is called Biting the Dentist.
An emergency problem that a dentist assessed would cost $2200+ for him to deal with, was treated by me and reversed, or at least stabilized nearly a year ago still remains in good shape, at the total cost of a few dollars.
I am currently working on methods of dealing with nuclear cataracts by other means, to avoid some of the complications presented by “standard” and “routine” procedures such as phacoemulsification, and all the secondary problems attendant to cataract surgery as it is presently practiced..
It is dismaying to me that it is virtually impossible to gain the audience of an innovative surgeon without the expenditure of several hundreds of dollars.
I can only conclude that the vast sums of money available to be made with the procedures in vogue now, have put new innovations which do not further the existing procedures and the revenues they generate, into the closet.
H.C. Benson
(Anthropositor)
3. Ruth Ilson | October 30th, 2007 at 9:49 am
I hae macular degeneration in one eye. Do you have any healing therapy or magnifier that would help me?
4. Marty Sussman | October 30th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Yes, we do offer a natural approach to helping people with macular degeneration possibly regain some degree of lost vision.
You can listen to eye doctor Dr. Gary price Todd talk about this approach and also reveal what he believes to be the underlying cause of macular degeneration – and how to fix it – just by going here:
http://www.bettervision.com/macular-deg-sign-up.html
I wish you the best in sight!
5. Macular Degeneration | June 3rd, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Great post, I really enjoyed it. I will have to bookmark this site for later.
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