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FLA. SOC. OF OPHTHALMOLOGY v. STATE, BD. OF OPTOMETRY

No. BT-79.

532 So.2d 1279 (1988)

FLORIDA SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY; Florida Medical Association; William J. Broussard, M.D.; Tully C. Patrowicz, M.D., and Baxter H. Byerly, M.D., Appellants, v. STATE of Florida BOARD OF OPTOMETRY and state of Florida Department of Professional Regulation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied November 18, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth G. Oertel, Segundo J. Fernandez, and M. Christopher Bryant, of Oertel & Hoffman, Tallahassee, for appellants.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and John E. Griffin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee State of Fla. Bd. of Optometry.

Leonard A. Carson and Michael Wm. Morell, of Carson & Linn, P.A., Tallahassee, for amici curiae, Florida Optometric Ass'n, Howard J. Braverman, O.D., and Frank A. Broome, O.D.

ZEHMER, Judge.

This is one of several cases arising out of the ongoing dispute between medical and osteopathic physicians who practice ophthalmic medicine and optometrists concerning the authority of optometrists to administer and prescribe certain topical drugs for the diagnosis and treatment of the human eye.1 The dispute involves enforcement of the 1986 amendment to chapter 463, chapter 86-289, Laws of Florida, which authorizes optometrists...

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