Differentiate optometrist, ophthalmologist and optician.?
There is a raging debate among the members of my clique as to the profession of each.
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1. optician fits your goggles - it takes a touch bit of training. you measure the eyes etc.2. optometrist examines your eyes and writes you a prescription for goggles and contacts
3. opthamologist is an actual medical doctor and can do surgery and invasive medical things to your eyes
states regulate what these folks can legally do. one current debate is just about whether optometrists should be allowed to "cut" on people's eyes (with lasers?) some states allow it and some do not. as expected opthamologists are against it, they feel that the added medical training is required to be qualified to cut on people's eyes.
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In decree of training, ophtalmologist comes first, then optometrist, after optician. An ophtalmologist is an MD, a physician, who like any specialist doctor have had over ten years of schooling and training. An optometrist have no medical school training but a license to theory test for simple vision problems and endow with you a prescription for glasses and contacts. An optician sell those last two.