Since I practice as an optometrist when I'm not tending the cattle farm, I gotta reply. I always appreciate KYHayman's responses on this forum because he almost always tells of his experience rather than his opinion, so I am going to try to respond in that manner. I am a doctor. I am board certified nationally and by the state of Missouri to provide primary, secondary and tertiary care to people with vision and systemic health problems. I chose to be an optometrist rather than an ophthalmologist because my hands are not steady enough to be a good surgeon. I respect any ophthalmologist tremendously for their gifts. I practice in a fairly rural setting, so I get to deal with lots of different eye related problems from blurry vision to cataracts to brain tumors. If I don't have and answer to a patient's symptomes, I find a doctor who does. Your advice to get a second opinion is sound advice, but you are wrong to suggest that any ophthalmologist is better educated that any optometrist - I've had way to many experiences where I had to scour text books for hours to treat a patient that the local opthalmologists weren't able to treat even when the diagnosis was known. Not trying to be cantankerous,
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P.S. I'd be happy to answer any vision problems on this forum that I can, but I'm not on line every day.
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