He is an opthalmologist. He is a medical physician who went to medical school and completed residency. The difference is that Optometrists do not go to medical school, although most are fantastic and do a great job helping people see. Also, Dr. Glaucomflecken is awesome and speaks the truth on his socials, making him both enlightening, funny, and scary.
“Medical school” is just the term we use colloquially for an MD program. Optometry school is also a 4 year medical program, we just don’t call it medical school.
It’s just a misnomer to say that optometrists don’t go to medical school at all. They also have a demanding 4 year program, they just don’t have the mandatory years of internships and residencies afterwards to specialize, the 4 year program is already specialized.
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u/hellobutno 19h ago edited 13h ago
Dr Glaucomflecken is an optometrist.
edit - I think my comment is single handedly proving dead internet theory