Tricks of the Trade to Moving Specialty CL Patients Efficiently Through Your Practice: How to master patient flow for specialty contact lens patients.

This article discusses strategies for efficiently managing specialty contact lens patients in an optometric practice. The author, Dr. Ashley W. Tucker, shares her experience of seeing around 250 new specialty contact lens patients per year and explains how she schedules and conducts appointments for these patients. She emphasizes the importance of spending time with patients to understand their needs and goals, and she outlines the steps involved in the initial visit, including history-taking, diagnostic fitting, and discussing the ordering process. Dr. Tucker also highlights the need for a well-trained team to support the practitioner and provides take-home materials to address patients' questions and concerns. [Extracted from the article]