disadvantages?

[shirin]

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What are the disadvantages of Optometry?
How do you answer this in an interview?

 

[Eye-Spy]

My least favourite aspect of optometry would be the fact that you have a responsibility to take away people's drivers licenses if they don't see well enough. i realize that this task is necessary for public and personal safety, but it still sucks to have to be the one to take away people's freedom.
I don't know if this is appropriate to say in an interview (thankfully i didn't get asked this question), but i think it's one of the hardest parts of the job.

 

[hokulele]

If you explore the optometry threads around here more, you can learn a lot about issues that face optometry/what some of the conflicts are, such as ophthalmology vs. optometry in scope of practice, difficulty with insurance coverage, etc.