Reviewer
Dr. John E. Larcabal
Assistant Professor
Southern California College of Optometry

Primary Care Optometry, fourth edition. T. Grosvenor: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002, 649pp, $90.00.
Like the three previous editions, Primary Care Optometry continues to be an exceptional clinical guide. Its pages are easy to read and its material is clear, succinct and easily understood. While the traditional nuts and bolts of optometry have not been forgotten or dimished, new topics have been added to reflect the expanding role of optometry. A chapter on Nonsurgical Methods of Myopia Control or Reduction has been included. The chapter on Refractive Surgery has been updated with the most current information. The chapter on Low Vision has been expanded to meet the growing need of an aging population.
For the student, this comprehensive text covers the meat of optometry in an easy-to-understand manner. Study questions at the end of each chapter reinforce important points and concepts. For the practitioner, this book is one-stop shopping. Grosvenor takes four years of optometry school and condenses it into one tome. It’s a great resource of information that we once knew for the Boards, but forgot soon thereafter.
Prior to writing this review, I decided to put Grosvenor to the test with two patients that I had recently seen in my office. The first had a varying vertical deviation. So I searched for Parks Three Step test. I found it on page 302. The next had keratoconus with corneal powers beyond my keratometer. I wanted to know what trial lens power I could place in front of the keratometer and what additional power it would yield. Page 452 informed me that a +1.25 would give me an additional 9.0 OD. Grosvenor had passed the test.
I highly recommend this book. Primary Care Optometry is an exceptional reference guide that will be used again and again.