Optometry in North Carolina

[daysinnnc]

Is there a good scope for optometry in NC?
cuz i see eye care provider every 2 miles in my area..
i live in charlotte
it would be dumb to study for 5 years and not get a jobb..

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[still_confused]

why are you studying for five years ????? school is four

 

[blazenmadison]

Is there a good scope for optometry in NC?
cuz i see eye care provider every 2 miles in my area..
i live in charlotte
it would be dumb to study for 5 years and not get a jobb..

NC boards are very hard to pass like Florida's. If I heard right, their boards are ORAL. The OD I used to work for said you have to have connections to the committee. 😉

They restrict the number of ODs going into the state, so oversupply isn't an issue. Salaries are pretty high. NC also has the largest scope of optometry in the US besides TN, OK, and a few others.

 

[sniklegem]

OT: blazenmadision, you should be taken out into the street and shot for your avatar pic. hHahahahahHAhahahHAhah! I do love it, though!

 

[Tippytoe]

NC boards are very hard to pass like Florida's. If I heard right, their boards are ORAL. The OD I used to work for said you have to have connections to the committee. 😉

They restrict the number of ODs going into the state, so oversupply isn't an issue. Salaries are pretty high. NC also has the largest scope of optometry in the US besides TN, OK, and a few others.

Silly, uninformed and nieve post. NC is super-saturated, as is 99% of the U.S. There are 3 ODs on every corner in every big and small town here.

 

[blazenmadison]

Silly, uninformed and nieve post. NC is super-saturated, as is 99% of the U.S. There are 3 ODs on every corner in every big and small town here.

Well someone is a little bitter about my NAIVE post. That is what I gathered from the ODs I've talked with from N.C. I'm assuming you practice in N.C. and probably unsuccessful. Did you join SDN to warn prospective students not to apply to optometry school or are you going to take the MCAT and get advice for transferring credits to med school? Either way, welcome to SDN!

 

[sniklegem]

Hahahah!
Ouch.

Well someone is a little bitter about my NAIVE post. That is what I gathered from the ODs I've talked with from N.C. I'm assuming you practice in N.C. and probably unsuccessful. Did you join SDN to warn prospective students not to apply to optometry school or are you going to take the MCAT and get advice for transferring credits to med school? Either way, welcome to SDN!

 

[Tippytoe]

Well someone is a little bitter about my NAIVE post. That is what I gathered from the ODs I've talked with from N.C. I'm assuming you practice in N.C. and probably unsuccessful. Did you join SDN to warn prospective students not to apply to optometry school or are you going to take the MCAT and get advice for transferring credits to med school? Either way, welcome to SDN!

Cute. I LOVE SDN. Been around in one form or another for years. What I love about the Optometry forum is that students, who have no idea what they are talking about, pretend to wax philosophically about the real world of practicing optometry. But whatever.

I do practice in NC and I have what will probably be one of the most successful optometry practices you will ever see. So bark up another tree on that one. Good try though. Well, actually, that was a pitiful try. But your busy studying so I'll give you a break.

Just trust me when I say that there is no undersupply, and in fact, a great oversupply in all of Optometry. I know you've invested alot to get into optometry school and you have blinders one. That's okay. I was there one time too. But facts are facts and no amount of schoolgirl dreaming will change them.

Now get back to learning about useless AC/A ratios 😀

 

[KHE]

That's okay. I was there one time too. But facts are facts and no amount of schoolgirl dreaming will change them.

Now get back to learning about useless AC/A ratios 😀

That's funny....I do a lot of schoolgirl dreaming too.

Or wait....that's dreaming of schoolgirls. Sorry. 😱

 

[Ben Chudner]

I do practice in NC and I have what will probably be one of the most successful optometry practices you will ever see.

I love how eveyone on these sites has the most successful practice I will ever see. I guess anonymity allows everyone to be as successful as they want to be.🙄

 

[KHE]

I love how eveyone on these sites has the most successful practice I will ever see. I guess anonymity allows everyone to be as successful as they want to be.🙄

Damn straight...

And my wife is totally hotter than yours, and my car is way more spiffy than yours, and I got a real fine six pack and I can bench 420 and I hold a PhD in Astrophysics from Oxford and a PhD in Economics from Cambridge as well as being a special consultant to the President of the United States on global thermo nuclear war and a member of Her Majesty The Queen's Royal Order of the Garter.

Greetings Professor Falken.....would you like to play a game?

 

[Tippytoe]

I love how eveyone on these sites has the most successful practice I will ever see. I guess anonymity allows everyone to be as successful as they want to be.🙄

My apologies. No bragging or boasted implied or necessary (it is what it is). The point is this: Who would have a better grasp on optometry in NC?-- A practicing OD in the state or a student that doesn't live there?

The major flaw of the internet is that anyone can be anything they want to be. No puffery here. Study hard, work hard and you can make good money and be well respected in the community with optometry..........or you can graduate and work at Walmart and be a thorn in all our sides. I'm hoping to lead people into the right direction.

 

[Ben Chudner]

Study hard, work hard and you can make good money and be well respected in the community with optometry..........or you can graduate and work at Walmart and be a thorn in all our sides. I'm hoping to lead people into the right direction.

Wal-Mart doctors are not a thorn in the side of successful OD's, and it's pretty cocky to believe that the direction you choose to lead students is necessarily the right direction for them. If private practice works for you (as it does for me) then that's great....for you.

 

[Tippytoe]

Wal-Mart doctors are not a thorn in the side of successful OD's, and it's pretty cocky to believe that the direction you choose to lead students is necessarily the right direction for them. If private practice works for you (as it does for me) then that's great....for you.

Only a complete loser would go to work as a doctor at Walmart. It's plain and simple. Everyone will laugh at you behind your back...your colleagues, MDs, patients, legislators etc...

That's a fact.

 

[still_confused]

Only a complete loser would go to work as a doctor at Walmart. It's plain and simple. Everyone will laugh at you behind your back...your colleagues, MDs, patients, legislators etc...

That's a fact.

and they laugh their way to the bank

 

[Ben Chudner]

Only a complete loser would go to work as a doctor at Walmart. It's plain and simple. Everyone will laugh at you behind your back...your colleagues, MDs, patients, legislators etc...

That's a fact.

Fact? 😆Hyperbole aside, these types of comments have no place on this board. If you want to spend your life hating Wal-Mart docs, have fun with that. I prefer to spend my energy on building my private practice so that I don't have to worry about Wal-Mart.

 

[Ryan_eyeball]

Only a complete loser would go to work as a doctor at Walmart. It's plain and simple. Everyone will laugh at you behind your back...your colleagues, MDs, patients, legislators etc...

That's a fact.

Most patients that go there do you not laugh at the OD. Most are grateful that they don't have to pay a high out of pocket cost to a private OD. Also most are thankful they can be seen the same day. I don't think corporate exams are nearly quite as thorough (in most cases) because you have one exam lane usually. Some docs believe its hard to dilate and move onto the next room, when there is no next room.