
FAQs
"First I start with the prescription. Then I check vision with and without glasses. I checked their anterior surface. I check the back of the eye. If the patient’s diabetic, I dilate the eye. Patients don’t like to be dilated, but it’s a better view for me. And then we walk outside and we look at the best fitting glasses on."
"Prices are always better. Price is always better in a small smaller practice. The bigger practices start off with a certain budget, when you look at the sheet because I worked in this type of practice, you always come out more expensive than the smaller practice. Price, number one. Second, it’s more catered to you."
“I can give them discounts on certain things. I can give them a pair of trials, if they run out of contacts. Whereas [corporate optometrists] go by protocol, no you can only get a pair of trials when you put an order in. I can, say in an emergency moment, that I have a wedding ‘can I come in?’ ‘Sure, come in. You don’t have to pay for an extra visit’. So, I can do things that, you have to pay for every visit there—you don’t have to necessarily here.”
