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lol I got owned again. I think I need a break from SDN until I start reading things more carefully.
Yes please. We will count the seconds until your return...
lol I got owned again. I think I need a break from SDN until I start reading things more carefully.
lol I got owned again. I think I need a break until I start caring more to read things more carefully.
lol I got owned again. I think I need a break until I start caring more to read things more carefully.
Nice gunner pic, go gun. Now just because you followed me here I'm going to go back to your radiology forums jkYes please. We will count the seconds until your return...
Who are you?So basically what we've all been saying all along. At least you realized it. Good job.
lol I got owned again. I think I need a break until I start caring more to read things more carefully.
Who are you?
Hello everyone,
Have anyone ever worked for American Best as an optometrist? Can you please tell me a little bit out the working condition? I have heard many not so good reviews about the company and is not sure if I should work there or not. Thanks
I'm going to be short and blunt here. It's the absolute worst that optometry has to offer. In fact, I'd stop short of calling it "optometry." If you need the cash, then so be it, but be aware that you'll be doing roughly 8 "exams" per hour (yes, you read correctly). I have several friends who went to them right out of school, enticed by the 6 figure salary. None of them lasted more than a year and one told me she would routinely cry on the way home from work (not kidding). I think that's a bit extreme, but it's garbage optometry at its worst.
The working condition can vary. Depends a lot on your store manager and district manager though. You'll have typical retail hours, rushed 5 minute exams (if its a busy store), constant asking to upsell optional visual fields and glasses coatings/styles. The management rarely appreciate you and so expect to run over your lunch and leaving time. But I think its obvious that its not a highly recommended company. But as Jason said: The "six figures + full benefits" is not even close to the norm in private practice. But most docs I know who have worked there have left between 1-5yrs. To each their own.
What if you just take your time with each patient, can they give you the boot? I know they might not sign a lease with you again but if I had a contract with them then I wouldn't care if 30 patients were waiting. Let them complain to management Would this work? I'm def not a push over.
Try that and let us all know how it works out for you. Clients (I refuse to call them patients) who go to AB for their glasses do not want you to take your time with them. They want to be in and out in 10 minutes.
Try that and let us all know how it works out for you. Clients (I refuse to call them patients) who go to AB for their glasses do not want you to take your time with them. They want to be in and out in 10 minutes.
People that come in to get their glasses/contacts at most, if not all commercial places are referred to as "customers," not as "patients" by the employees. If you work commercial, you'll feel that way too after a while. After all, these retail places only care about optical sales and use the OD to pump out Rxs for them. Imagine, if you're going to end up in commercial setting, you're devoting 4 yrs of your life and be in debt in the range of 150K-200K to get your OD degree, but in real life you're only be doing a refraction. You can forget all the ocular disease you're trained for in OD school. Recent grads are already having a hard time getting on medical panels due to oversaturation, so I don't know how future grads will be able to get on. If you can't get on medical insurance, you can't do medical eye care that you are trained for while in school. They don't tell you this when you're in school, but this you find out when you graduate and by then it's too late. Retail optometry is taking over and it's ruining the profession.
....The truth is, their fate is practically sealed before they even start. Retail is the future of optometry. The medical side will be there in training only. We're printing out of thousands of refracting techs right now at a cost of about 200K a copy.....Pretty sad.
If I knew then what I know now.....
....Imagine, if you're going to end up in commercial setting, you're devoting 4 yrs of your life and be in debt in the range of 150K-200K to get your OD degree, but in real life you're only be doing a refraction. You can forget all the ocular disease you're trained for in OD school. ....They don't tell you this when you're in school, but this you find out when you graduate and by then it's too late. Retail optometry is taking over and it's ruining the profession.
Stop preaching the truth on here, lest the students just label you as a bitter, unsuccessful OD.
What if you just take your time with each patient, can they give you the boot? I know they might not sign a lease with you again but if I had a contract with them then I wouldn't care if 30 patients were waiting. Let them complain to management Would this work? I'm def not a push over.
Stop preaching the truth on here, lest the students just label you as a bitter, unsuccessful OD.
America's Best doesn't care about you and the care you give your patients, they just care about you writing a spectacle Rx so they can sell some glasses. The more spectacle Rx's you generate in one day, the happier management is... regardless if you missed a RD, or didn't have time to explain amblyopia to a parent, etc.
And an important thing students/doc should not forget is that these 'refracting houses' will not be held liable for the retinal detachment or diabetic retinopathy you miss because you are so rushed to see the next 10 customers tapping their feet waiting for you to give them their Rx. The store doesn't care. It's your license on the line and YOU will be the one sued.