We got new glasses in September. As we are both over 50, he recommended that we should see an ophthalmologist as many eye problems start showing up around that time.
As neither of us have anything critical, we’ll do it next year, when (hopefully) things are back to normal.
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Also, if your optometrist missed something very obviously wrong with your eyes, then they are incompetent. Instead of disparaging the profession, I hope you reported it to your state board. [/quote]
I started wearing glasses at 11 and through 35 years I might have seen ten different (all male) optometrists. Zero of them detected a condition I was born with, which would render me legally blind by 50.
Nurse Practitioner.
Naturopath is simply highfalutin-Latin for “quack”. And I never even thought of that word as a plausible decode for “NP”, since it’s not a word I associate in any way with the practice of medicine. I flunk acronymology. Again. Sigh.
True dat. And they tend to refer to themselves as NDs, or “naturopathic doctors”. In medicine, NP means Nurse Practitioner 99+% of the time. At least in the US.
Optometrists do treat a fair range of eye diseases too, and prescribe a certain range of medications. But their scope of practice is much more limited than that of an ophthalmologist.
Never heard of a Naturopath before this, and hope to never do so again.
Omgosh, there’s a college of naturopathy nearby, and you can’t swing a cat without hitting one. Therefore, people here seem to think they’re legitimate.
What does male have to do with it?
Have you considered that in the same span of time or era, ten ophthalmologists might have missed it also? Could have been the state of the science for both professions in the era in which it occurred. You can’t know that an ophthalmologist in the same time frame and state of eye care science wouldn’t have missed it also. Zero ophthalmologists in those years might have caught it. Be angry at the disease and the hardship it causes, that’s understandable.
BTW, in the mid ‘70s, I experienced a sudden retinal emergency. At least 10 high faluting (and you haven’t seen a high-faluting doctor til you’ve seen a Boston one) Boston teaching hospital ophthalmologists misdiagnosed it, so I’m legally blind in that eye, yet I still depend on both optometrists and specialized ophthalmologists for my care to preserve and maximize my vision. Some wield a scalpel, some have an hour to fiddle with my refraction-from each their own expertise. One is not better than the other-I yet to have one profession NOT refer me to the other for what that one does best.
I guess one can only conclude that male optometrists are terrible.
/Sarcasm
That was a reply to Cairo Carol, who said my optometrist might have been a “she”. It is so tiring, the the only comment on any post is only about its political correctness.
You said, “An optometrist is a guy who hires girls to sell eyeglasses for him.”
That is not a statement about just your optometrist. Cairo Carol was not saying your optometrist was female. And yes, it is tiring.
MODHAT: jtur88 you will not derail this thread. Any other comments off subject in this thread will generate a warning and a banning from this thread.
Yours might- but not all do. I have to see an ophthalmologist yearly because I have diabetes and I saw another years ago for an eye problem. (a sty, I think). Neither does vision checks or prescribes glasses/contacts but both have optometrists in their office who do. I went to a different optometrist for my glasses- because although the ophthalmologists accept my medical insurance, the optometrists in their offices did not participate in my completely separate vision plan.
I have to admit, I have sometimes been confused about what would go on my medical vs. my vision insurance, and therefore what doctor I should go to based on networks, etc.
It is a mare’s nest and just when you figure it, it changes the next plan year. And don’t get me going about in-network and out-of-network.
That’s the beauty of Medicare.
Never mind, I’m self-banning from this thread, since nobody wants to talk about anything but my politically incorrect pronouns, which was not my derail. I made a post on-topic, then defended against off-topic replies.
What’s the beauty of Medicare? My understanding is that original Medicare and Medicare supplement plans doesn’t cover glasses - some Medicare Advantage plans might cover glasses but not all of them do.
Medicare covered both my cataract surgeries. I never expected any insurance to cover my glasses.