On Aug 24, 2:48 pm, Mark Harrison <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/21/10 1:03 PM, RedStickHam wrote: > > Finding a good optometrist isn't easy, even with referrals, it's a > > crapshoot. > > Yep... I had a great optometrist, but he retired and I didn't > think his replacement was very good. > > Fortunately, I found out one of the local Universities has > an optometry dept. They seem really good... exams are by > students and are reviewed by the professors. They have an > advanced clinic for things like dyslexia and other eye > disorders -- people come from around the state for those > diagnoses. > > They're also great with online glasses... I asked for my > PD and told them why, they asked a lot of questions about > how I liked it, did I notice any problems, etc. > > So if you happen to have an eyeball university in range > it's worth a try!- Hide quoted text - >
Don't have one of those here, but I'll keep that suggestion in mind if I move. When I was a kid, an optometrist opened up a vision shop in a nearby mall. It was a small place, but it did well and he started expanding, even having 2 stores in the same mall, and opening new branches all over town. However, as his company got bigger and he got richer, he got more interested in making money than he did in providing good eye care, and the place went down hill. We know he fired at least one optometrist because she wouldn't rush exams to produce the volume he company wanted. As for glasses, my sister had more than one pair of glasses made wrong there, as did my parents. We were loyal customers from when he first started the company, but later decided to take our business elsewhere. Although I'm not against an optometrist opening a chain of vision shops and becoming a millionaire, I am against doing it by cutting corners and providing low quality care to the patients. I don't know how the place is now, since I don't live in that city anymore and that optometrist has since died, but I do know the company still exists. Hopefully it changed hands and new owners cleaned things up, but I doubt it. Probably not much better than Lenscrafters. RedStickHam -- Check us out at the oft-updated http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en
