WHO IS AN OPTOMETRIST?
Well as you all know I am a student of Optometry in Abia State University and on gaining admission into the department of Optometry I thought an Optometrist was an Optician, so I would say its not new for someone to be ignorant about who an Optometrist is. Optometrists are the primary health care practitioners of the eye and visual system who provide comprehensive eye and vision care, which includes; refraction and dispensing, detection/diagnosis and management of diseases in the eye and the rehabilitation of conditions of the visual system. This the definition adopted by The World Council Optometry and World Health Organisation. This definition includes professional terms and not everyone will still quite get who an Optometrist is, that is why I will try to the best of my ability to explain further. An Optometrist being a primary health care practitioner of the eye...