As I See It

Dr. Brady discusses Durysta®, an easily implantable long term release of glaucoma medication that lowers eye pressure

This week, Dr. Jeff and Dr. Susan talk about the importance of hyping up your staff meetings and how even doctor to staff relationships can play an important role in the morale of your practice.

Dr. Robin Brady is one of our new doctors. Learn more about him, his clinical experience and why he roots for the wrong football team!

Does everyone get cataracts? If so, why did my grandma not get them until age 89, but I have been diagnosed at age 55? Dr. Jeff and Susan discuss cataracts, their diagnosis and how we discuss this with patients.

Thicker, darker, longer has always been the goal. And today, we have many more choices. What’s a girl to do and how do we keep the eyelashes (and eyes) healthy? Dr. Keg discusses some of these questions with aesthetician Renee Turtoro.

What do time to third appointment (TTT) and Cycle time (cycle) have to do with monitoring and improving patient care? Listen as Dr. Keg, front office, and technical managers discuss both needs as priorities for our practices.

Recognizing our staff is a key component of every staff meeting. In this episode, we go through the process as well as the different incentives we provide to our high performers!

Learn how we keep the focus on patients every week. Even when you are not around!

In this week's episode, we sit down with Dr. Kelley Everman and talk to him about those pesky eyelids— why do they droop, and what can we do about it? If you have questions about today's episode or would like to reach out to Dr. Everman, you can check out his practice's website at www.eliteoculoplastics.com.

A direction is not a destination without execution. You as a leader set the direction and destination. The behaviors and beliefs you and your people demonstrate with each interaction connect the big Mission to each person's actions. That is true alignment. In their eye care business, Dr. Susan and Jeff use a BB card to reinforce the key beliefs and behaviors. Do you have a card for your team?

It is the time of year when we all set goals...or should. Yet where are those goals taking you? What is your Mission and purpose? This is the time to connect what you want to achieve to who you are, what you believe and where you want to be. Your Mission must live and be shared. See how Dr. Keg and his offices make their mission live and the goals they use to lead to Mission Accomplished.

Friend of the program, Dr. Gary Gerber, (previous episodes on nearsighted control,) talks with Dr. Jeff about a different "key" pursuit. Playing the piano in rock bands with rock legends! 

Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR (Question, Response, Refer) learn how to understand mental health, recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis, and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Today we talk to Mindy Tate and Marianne Schroer about the very high suicide rate in Williamson County, and...

In today's episode, we sit down and speak with Dr. Jim Patton of Vanderbilt University. Dr. Patton has been researching how certain retinal stem-cells in zebrafish are able to regenerate and repair themselves after being damaged. If this ability can be applied to humans, it could prove to offer eye-saving treatment for many and is an exciting look into the future of optical regeneration and eye ca...

Presbyopia (or farsightedness) is a common condition that eventually happens to everyone's eyes. Thankfully, advancements in technology and medicine have made it easier than ever to have the effects of presbyopia mitigated. In this episode, Dr. Jeff walks through presbyopia and it's subsequent treatments, including technologies that are well on the way to help you see in those dark and dim restaur...

We look forward at our practices to sharing a Thanksgiving lunch with all of the doctors, staff and some of our patients. Patients? Yes, a tradition at Cool Springs and Donelson EyeCare is to invite patients to join our teams for a Thanksgiving lunch on the day before the holiday. It is one way we stress how thankful and lucky we are to provide care for a tremendous community of patients.

In this encore presentation Dr. Kegarise and Dr. Everton Arrindell of Tennessee Retina discuss the treatment of diabetic retinopathy, both now and in the future.

In this rerun of episode 24, Dr. Jeff Kegarise discusses diabetes with Dr. Arrindell. Dr. Arrindell grew up in the Virgin Islands, went to college at Michigan State, went to medical school at the University of Iowa, and completed his residency at the University of Michigan.  Dr. Arrindell and some of his fellow medical professionals founded a practice called Tennessee Retina in 2008. Dr. Arrindell...

Dr. Keg discusses how diabetes affects the eyes and what eye doctors watch for when examining eyes in patients with diabetes.

Dr. Jeff and Stephanie Moore discuss our new optical line AO – The classic and legendary designs worn by JFK, Doug McArthur, Neil Armstrong and others.

Dr. Jeff and Margie Godfrey, Executive Director & Founder, The Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Systems (IEHSS), talk about her recent work with healthcare improvement.