Optometrists are lobbying for more leeway to treat patients and physicians' groups are pushing back. But it's more than a turf war, both sides say, as they explain why patients' vision is at stake.
As the Ford government allows thousands of backlogged surgeries to take place at private clinics, there are concerns patients could be paying for more than they need.
Services planned for Ridgefield resident Stephen A. Mathias, M.D., a longtime Pediatric Ophthalmologist of Connecticut Eye Consultants (formerly Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons).