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AAO, Puerto Rico society block OD lobby efforts

Washington, DC-The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) joined forces with the Puerto Rico Ophthalmological Society to derail the optometry lobby's legislative effort to expand their optometric scope of practice dramatically. Ophthalmologists blocked legislation that would have allowed the broadest optometric scope of practice in the United States.

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