Patients depend on us to tell them what is necessary or not. A physician who is not an ophthalmologist has zero clue what is normal or not. My father is an anesthesiologist and got an OCT and B scan done for a PVD. He had no clue whether it was necessary or not. No one other than an ophthalmologist or optometrist would know if it was needed. The concept that the patient can someone decide for themselves because they know which tests are necessary or not is absurd. That is why we go to medical school.
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