The sad part with commercial optometry is that there's not enough patients to go around coupled that with poor reimbursements from vision insurance. Like I mentioned before, don't count on doing medical eye care if you can't get on medical panels as new grads. On top of this you have the pressure from retail opticals next door to you to open long hours or else they'll remove you and hire another naive new grad (there's plenty of them out there). So imagine you're expected to sit there all day and hardly see any patients. Think about it!!! How are you going to live? You don't see this happening with other health professions. When I need to schedule an appointment for my son to see his doctor, I usually won't get an appointment till a week later. There are so many things that are wrong with optometry I don't know where to begin. It needs a complete overhaul.
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