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To help ophthalmologists prepare for a practice transition, the Academy's Senior Ophthalmologist Committee has compiled several resources, including articles and reflections from past issues of Scope.

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We're Not Old, We're Jubilado

AUG 25, 2017 By M Bruce Shields MD in Practice Transitions

Not long ago, a controversy arose among our colleagues (maybe you were one of them) regarding the acceptability of referring to ourselves as “senior ophthalmologists.” (The controversy, of course, had to do with the adjective “senior.”) There were those who felt that the te…

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Scope Enters the Digital Age

JUN 13, 2017 By M Bruce Shields MD in Practice Transitions

Scope, the newsletter of the senior ophthalmologist, was launched in the summer of 1997 and, in the 20 years that followed, we have seen our world change in many ways. We have seen brick-and-mortar retail stores close in large part because shoppers increasingly prefer to mak…

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Private Equity Buyouts of Ophthalmology Practices

JUN 07, 2017 By Thomas S Harbin, MD, MBA in Practice Transitions

Ophthalmology groups are selling around the country, sometimes for amounts even greater than $50 million. Private equity groups, flush with cash and without better investing opportunities, have set their sights on medical and dental practices.

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Remembering William S. Tasman, MD, 1929-2017

JUN 07, 2017 By M Bruce Shields MD, W Banks Anderson Jr MD in Practice Transitions

For years, indeed for most of the life of the Scope newsletter, we have been richly entertained by the diverse interests, knowledge and good humor of the articles by Associate Editor William S. Tasman, MD. In late March 2017, we lost our friend and esteemed colleague at the…

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Mentoring: Our Legacy and Our Reward

MAR 07, 2011 By Peter J McDonnell MD in Practice Transitions

In a previous university, I worked under a brilliant academician and scientist. “There are two kinds of senior academicians” he once told me. “One kind says ‘look how great I was - when I retired, everything just kind of fell apart in my department’. The other kind says ‘loo…

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