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Finding & Sustaining Happiness in Optometry: How Do You Do It?
By Bethany Fishbein, OD
If you accept the posts on many of the popular optometric Facebook pages as truth, an OD’s life can sound scary. There are many unhappy optometrists out there. Posts about disappointment in career choice, burnout, frustration with staff, unreasonable patients, insurance companies and management are common, and far outnumber the happy posts from optometrists who wake up most days excited to do the work they love. Here is what I recently shared with fourth-year optometry students about how I sustain happiness with our profession.
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EYEGLASSES - FIT AND DISPENSING GUIDEThis course will guide the optician through frame selection, standard alignment, fitting triangle adjustments, frame fit measurements, and the why and how of lens pantoscopic tilt, wrap, and back vertex distance position of wear measurements.
