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Health Assessment and Screening During Adolescence
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1988
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Health AssessmentAdolescent Behavioral HealthEducationAdolescenceAdolescent MedicineHealth ScreeningPublic HealthGeneral Academic PediatricsTeen Mental HealthOphthalmologyAdolescent PsychologyPediatrics 1987Adolescent DevelopmentOptometryVision TestingAdolescent Primary CarePediatricsPediatric OphthalmologyMedicine
To the Editor.— In the recommendations for health screening for Adolescence (Pediatrics 1987;88:146), vision testing is appropriately recommended. However, it is suggested by the authors that these patients be referred to optometrists or ophthalmologists if abnormalities are detected. As you know, optometrists are not physicians and hence do not receive the same degree of intensive training received by ophthalmologists and pediatric ophthalmologists, and they are not licensed to practice medicine or surgery. In my opinion, the level of care delivered by such a nonphysician does not approach that which can be delivered by physician specialists and subspecialists.