I guess it's my own fault for reading this board, but I am really thinking about stopping that. I am almost nauseated that this board is constantly plugged up with garbage about ophthalmology vs. optometry turf battle. True, I have been occassionally involved in the smack-off, but really it's become too much.
Actually, as Ophthalmologists, we should feel privileged that we have a group of well trained ancillary eye care providers that take much of the burden of routine eye care off of our hands. Ophthalmology may not have been quite as appealing to me if I though I would be doing contact lens fitting and manifest refracting all day long. I know that there are people on both sides of the symbiotic relationship that are trying to shift the balance in their own favor, but really in a perfect world, the situation could be great. I have a great deal of respect for optometrists when they practice within their scope. In my program, I have even sought them out to teach me optics, and refraction as their expertice is a function of exposure and repetition. So, for all of the negative posts on optometrists, I think the have an ESSENTIAL role in eye care.
Is that shocking? I don't know. Based on all of the inflammatory personal messages I have received from the ? pre-optometry/optometry students? I guess they will all be shocked. And I really could do without all of the "You must really be an insecure person" blah-blah-blah. Optometrists currently don't have psychoanalysis rights (Yet), so until then please leave that to the psychiatry/psychology turf wars. That is a joke, not meant to be offensive.
The solution? Maybe we should just have one big garbage forum titled Ophthalmology Vs. Optometry where we can just piss and moan about all how little money opthalmologists make, and how Optometry is soooooo well organized that we'll be lucky if we ever pay back our student loans. Give me a break. I'm not saying these issues of optometrists gaining surgical rights isn's scarey to me, or that we shouldn't be fighting it, but I have grown tired of reading everyone's recycled opinions.
I wish this board could go back to what it used to be...Med students interested in ophthalmology trying to get info from residents etc on what the specialty is like, what programs are good, etc, and educational posts on pathology, etc.
Oh, and by the way...I read a recent post slamming GeddyLee. GeddyLee is a nice guy who I've met personally on the interview trail. He does have higher board scores than the majority of matched applicants and he is a great candidate. So to any lurkers who are on this board, enough with the personal attacks on people. Lets all try to act like the professionals we claim to be.
Actually, as Ophthalmologists, we should feel privileged that we have a group of well trained ancillary eye care providers that take much of the burden of routine eye care off of our hands. Ophthalmology may not have been quite as appealing to me if I though I would be doing contact lens fitting and manifest refracting all day long. I know that there are people on both sides of the symbiotic relationship that are trying to shift the balance in their own favor, but really in a perfect world, the situation could be great. I have a great deal of respect for optometrists when they practice within their scope. In my program, I have even sought them out to teach me optics, and refraction as their expertice is a function of exposure and repetition. So, for all of the negative posts on optometrists, I think the have an ESSENTIAL role in eye care.
Is that shocking? I don't know. Based on all of the inflammatory personal messages I have received from the ? pre-optometry/optometry students? I guess they will all be shocked. And I really could do without all of the "You must really be an insecure person" blah-blah-blah. Optometrists currently don't have psychoanalysis rights (Yet), so until then please leave that to the psychiatry/psychology turf wars. That is a joke, not meant to be offensive.
The solution? Maybe we should just have one big garbage forum titled Ophthalmology Vs. Optometry where we can just piss and moan about all how little money opthalmologists make, and how Optometry is soooooo well organized that we'll be lucky if we ever pay back our student loans. Give me a break. I'm not saying these issues of optometrists gaining surgical rights isn's scarey to me, or that we shouldn't be fighting it, but I have grown tired of reading everyone's recycled opinions.
I wish this board could go back to what it used to be...Med students interested in ophthalmology trying to get info from residents etc on what the specialty is like, what programs are good, etc, and educational posts on pathology, etc.
Oh, and by the way...I read a recent post slamming GeddyLee. GeddyLee is a nice guy who I've met personally on the interview trail. He does have higher board scores than the majority of matched applicants and he is a great candidate. So to any lurkers who are on this board, enough with the personal attacks on people. Lets all try to act like the professionals we claim to be.
