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Last month I was in New Orleans for the American Academy of Optometry meeting. I was able to walk around that unique city \u2013 Ignatius J. Reilly\u2019s \u2018comfortable metropolis\u2019 \u2013 and pop into places for a chicory coffee, a muffaletta or a Sazerac. Sometimes a place would have all three for me. I love how going to conferences lets us explore cities we might not otherwise have experienced. You can\u2019t get to know everything about a place in four days, but if you get a little further away from the convention center you can certainly make an effort. Exploring other cultures \u2013 and New Orleans culture is certainly different from where I live in Boston \u2013 inspires me to think about mine differently. I try to take little pieces with me from every place I go, to broaden my perspective and improve the way I look at things when I get back home.<\/p>\n

And really, that\u2019s what we do in the CE lectures too. We hear from doctors around the country who probably do things a little different than we do. Maybe we go to lectures about topics we\u2019re pretty familiar with, and we still hear things that we can adapt to our own practice. Or maybe we go to lectures about topics we\u2019re completely unaccustomed to, and we start seeing a different way to practice. A new way we can help patients. My favorite thing to do at CE conferences is go to lectures on topics that are out of my comfort zone. I don\u2019t really set up a schedule, I just kind of drift to what interests me in that moment. Last month I drifted to a lot of surgical and laser courses. I was completely impressed by my colleagues who are doing these procedures. These are people who at one point stepped out of their comfort zone and decided to push themselves to learn something new. Now they\u2019re helping their patients AND helping train a generation of doctors who can help THEIR patients. By lecturing on these topics, they\u2019re following that advice: \u201cyou may be the first to do something, but make sure you\u2019re not the last.\u201d<\/p>\n

I get inspired when I come back from a CE conference; I hope you, reader, get that same inspiration from the articles in this issue. Open up the latest Follow The Science column and be inspired to adopt a more evidence-based approach into your practice every day. Learn that Evidence Based Medicine doesn\u2019t have to be a dirty word, and doesn\u2019t have to be an all-or-nothing proposition. Drift into the Sickle Cell article by Njeru et al. and learn things you didn\u2019t know about a topic you thought you were familiar with. Click on that image of the hyphema and be inspired to photo-document more conditions. Wander into the article about cerebellopontine angle tumors and be proud of yourself that you explored a difficult concept and emerged a clinician with a deeper understanding. We owe it to our patients to be the best doctor we can be. So find inspiration when you can and push yourself to think about what you<\/strong> want to teach someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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