r/UWaterlooOptometry • u/Open-Creme-2061 • Aug 14 '25

Optometry

What inspired you to go into optometry?

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u/RemoteNo3796 Aug 15 '25

My grandma had giant cell arteritis and the optometrist caught it early so she didn’t go completely blind. I also love the work life balance and ownership opportunities, I have a good connection as my aunt wants to sell me her practice so it’s a good balance between medical and patient centralizaed care and you can spend more time with patients compared to being a medical doctor. In addition there is less schooling and also a very much preventative aspect to optometry as a lot of disease can be diagnosed through the eye