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What is an Optometrist? Well, an Optometrist, also called a Doctor of Optometry, we are
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primary care eye doctors. We diagnose and treat vision problems, eye disorders and related
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conditions. We prescribe contacts and glasses and help educate people and counsel them when
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it comes to different eye surgeries, whether it's refractive surgeries like lasik or through
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cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery, we help counsel them for their surgeries and do a
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fair amount of pre and post-op care for patients who have surgery. A typical day for us involves
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staying in kind of a dimly lit room looking at some letters and using microscopes to evaluate
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patient's eyes. And we see a number of patients throughout the day and it's kind of a one
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on one interaction with patients. So that is the bulk of the day. We'll talk to them
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at length about their particular eye problems and how to make them better and then we'll
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help coordinate the care for the patient where there involves calling other doctors to find
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out the results of other tests, or help schedule them to other doctors for other further work
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ups or just guide them over to our optical and our staff will help them pick out some
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glasses and get that coordinated. We'll also, we might even send them over to our contact
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lens service and have the folks in our contact lens area talk to the patient a little bit
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more about different styles of contact lenses. Our, so generally our responsibilities are
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just to ensure that the patient sees well and to make sure that they don't have any
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kind of eye health condition that would keep them from seeing well throughout their lifetime.
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So that in general is what an Optometrist does.