Indiana OD---------> you have discovered a new disorder that DOCTORSAIB and verticillata are afflicted with.......
Medical--Hubrisitis acquired from drinking cool-aid......
You cannot win this argument with people that have been indoctrinated (ummm brainwashed) by medical education.
The fact is OD's spend a minimum of 8 yrs ( undergrad + doctor of optometry program) to train to be primary eye doctors. We are geared to understand optics better than anybody, we train extensively to treat and manage ocular disease, we have a good understanding of systemic disease and how it relates to the visual system, the OD program is the BEST for training primary eye doctors. Regardless of what you say Indiana, MD's (most of them) are still going to think that your education is inferior to theirs........ I know mine is not and I am proud to be a doctor of optometry in the future!
1. An OD has a basic understanding of optics necessary for refraction; a PhD in optical physics is geared to understand optics better than ANYBODY.
2. An OD trains to refract, manage basic ocular disease, and understands systemic effects of disease on the eye, NOT systemic disease processes.
3. Optometry is a non-medical form of primary care health care, not the BEST training for primary eye doctors.
4. An optometrist's education is NOT inferior than a physician's; it is different. Hence, medical vs. optometry school. You know, like two DIFFERENT schools, two different schools of thought, two different programs.
5. An optometrist is an optometrist; no more and no less.
6. You, my friend, are arrogant and obviously regret not being able to cut into someone's eye, wear scrubs (and not look like a tool), and have cute nurses fawn all over you. So, you convince yourself, day after day, that you're a physician of sorts and I bet you donuts to dollars you wear a long white embroidered coat with a stethoscope around your neck?
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7. BTW, here's a good example of hubris straight from your signature:
Future Optometric-Gynecological--Otolaryngological--Oral Maxillofacial--Onclological--Psychiatric--Geriatric--Dermatological--Podiatric--Orthopedic--Orthodontic--Endodontic--Dental--Neurological--Psychiatrist
(We get very in depth training in optometry school!)
Now, analyzing the underlying meaning behind your signature, which is not funny whatsoever, and is the epitome of arrogance, I can clearly see that my sixth point above is dead-on accurate. You have won Zack's
Tool of Year Award for that signature. Like I said before, I'd love to watch your facial expression in court when you, an optometric gynecologist, surgeon, and oncologist, get sentenced for 2-5 years for battery, practicing medicine without a license, fraud, and misrepresentation. I'd love to sit in your licensing hearing with the Optometry Board. "Well, I"m a
DOCTOR of Optometry, and I thought dilating her cervix was the same as dilating her retinas; after all, I'm a
DOCTOR of Optometry and I'm a primary care physician and...but I'm a
DOCTOR! What's the problem? Why are you taking my license!"
