When it comes to eye health and maintaining good vision over the span of your lifetime, there are three providers who you're likely to interact with: ophthalmologists, optometrists and opticians.

Ophthalmologists and optometrists coexist in most communities but not always without issues. Sometimes, each group may resent the other, creating disputes or business problems. As elsewhere in life, ...

CEBU, Philippines – One of the most confusing parts of vision and eye care, for many patients, is in understanding the difference between optometrists and ophthalmologists. Figuring out where you ...

A lot of students get confused between what optometry and opthalmology are about. We sort out the confusion: Optometry – healthcare profession that deals with the eyes and its related structures, ...

This past November, a patient asked optometrist Kaitlin Soracco to remove a bulge of skin on her eyelid. Such skin tags can be excised right there in the office using procedures Soracco studied and ...

An optometrist is a nonmedical professional who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases, injuries, and disorders of the eye and visual system. Optometrists do not attend medical school. After ...

*As an ophthalmologist, you want to make sure that you uphold your end of the bargain. When patients are referred to you for medical problems, it is important for the ophthalmologist to communicate ...