Getting published

Every day Optician readers are solving problems, helping people to see, resolving concerns and detecting illness that might otherwise have made life worse for the sufferer. Optician has always been keen on publishing case studies. As with other publications, these have often tended to focus on the more challenging (such as our recent series from Specsavers Haverfordwest) or are written by those in academia more used to publishing in the clinical or professional press.

That said, you only have to attend a peer discussion or review to hear about the many and various cases colleagues are involved in day to day. These might be an unusual medical presentation, an interesting referral, an unusual field defect, the resolution of a particularly troublesome non-tolerance case, management of a contact lens concern – the options are endless. Much is learned from these, and I think they are of great interest value too.