An Eye For The Unusual

Zack Roth takes a look at the little-known not-for-profit founded and run by Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul for the purpose of issuing board certification to ophthalmologists. Paul, himself an ophthalmologist, apparently set up his board as a competitor to the longstanding American Board of Ophthalmology, which certifies about 96 percent of the country’s ophthalmologists. But the professional ophthalmology groups we talked to had never heard of Paul’s National Board of Ophthalmology even though it’s been around since 1999, and we could only find a few physicians claiming NBO certification.