{"id":25535,"date":"2026-02-24T09:12:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=25535"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:53:01","slug":"effort-to-modernize-eye-care-shouldnt-come-at-the-expense-of-patient-safety-new-hampshire-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/effort-to-modernize-eye-care-shouldnt-come-at-the-expense-of-patient-safety-new-hampshire-bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"Effort to ‘Modernize’ Eye Care Shouldn’t Come at the Expense of Patient Safety\u2014New Hampshire Bulletin<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Michael E. Zegans, a professor of surgery and of microbiology and immunology, writes an opinion piece about a bill that would allow optometrists, who are not medical doctors or trained surgeons, to perform eye surgeries in New Hampshire. \"Surgery is not merely an extension of routine care or a way to 'enhance' a business practice. It is its own specialty, requiring extensive medical residency and surgical training that cannot be replaced with optometry school coursework,\" Zegans writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Michael E. Zegans, a professor of surgery and of microbiology and immunology, writes an opinion piece about a bill that would allow optometrists, who are not medical doctors or trained surgeons, to perform eye surgeries in New Hampshire. “Surgery is not merely an extension of routine care or a way to ‘enhance’ a business practice. It is its own specialty, requiring extensive medical residency and surgical training that cannot be replaced with optometry school coursework,” Zegans writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-6DR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25536,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25535\/revisions\/25536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}