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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (10 children)

An opthalmologist is an eye doctor. They go to medical school and do a residency for extra training. Optometrists have doctorates in optometry meaning they do four more years of school after their bachelor's. They can call themselves doctor because in the US that's the convention for doctorate's (in Europe ony medical doctors use the term). There's avast difference in intensity, depth, bredth, etc. of training between the two. It's easy to miss the difference if you're not familiar with the system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The irony of this spelling error is actually hilarious.

"There’s avast difference in intensity, depth, bredth, etc."

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