Overall Health and Healthy Sight Go Together
Medical practice is currently in the age of the specialist, the sub-specialist, and the super-specialist. This approach produces admirable results in some areas of medicine by allowing select, highly-trained individuals to concentrate on a single organ or system. However, this approach has also served to compartmentalize medical practice, and tends to minimize the fact that various organs and systems that comprise the human organism are interrelated and interdependent. As a result, practitioners may miss the forest while concentrating on the trees.
Current vision care is not immune to the consequences of this shortsighted "forest for the trees" approach to healthcare. The eye may be a very small tree in the forest that is the body, but it is an important one, and, in Healthy Sight Counseling, both the trees and the forest are concerns.
Many systemic diseases manifest themselves in the eye and carry the potential to produce serious vision-threatening ocular sequelae. Conversely, certain eye disorders may serve as harbingers of disease elsewhere in the body, so that recognizing and treating them early can avoid both ocular and systemic complications. Diabetes mellitus is a prime example of both possibilities. While Healthy Sight is first and foremost about good vision and long-term ocular well-being, Healthy Sight Counseling takes into account that ocular health is closely linked to systemic health.
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