Hello Career Changerby Anonymous (no login)I would like to tell you once and for all that ODs provide no viable service except give you a Rx for a pair of glasses. Lets say you wake up one morning and have a severe eye problem that is painful and oozing. Do you run to the nearest Target to see their OD? Call your family doc? Go to the ER? Go see a MD-eye doc? I would do all of those except see an OD. They may be trained to identify disorders and even Rx for them but you would (will) never be able to refer pts. to another dr. (because you are able to identify systemic disease right?) and your knowledge of infection and disease will be far less of any other healthcare provider that may render eye serivces. Look at the propaganda of non-physician health care providers and how they claim that they are always the first to identify a serious disorder such as diabetes, CHF, high blood pressure, ect. Dentist, ODs, and DPMs all claim that they are the first to see these disorders. ODs are like psychics, they look deep into your eyes and see your problems, when infact they play the smallest role in healthcare possible. Have you ever thought about chiropractic or something else? OK, and by the way this 'medical model' that you talk about, you will NOT be trained in any discipline even remotely similar to an allopathic/osteopathic model, so if you think that you are going to be trained like a physician, YOURE NOT. You are going to dispense contacts and glasses. Realize the facts. You will never be what physicians call a 'RD' -REAL DOCTOR from IP address 65.100.215.207 Goto Forum Home |
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