Dr. O’Dell spends most of her time diagnosing and treating dry eye disease. But she is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry in ocular disease and has extensive training in the field of glaucoma.
Recently, she teamed up with Dr. Alan Robin, a well known glacoma specialist to publish a research paper about adherence to glaucoma treatments.
Their work is very interesting, demonstrating that patients are not as loyal to treatments as we think, even with sight threatening diseases. If this is the case image how non-compliant you might be to non-sight threatening treatments such as your dry eye treatment. How many are guilty of waiting days between the dosing of your artificial tear or only using them when symptommatic?
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