- So today we're gonna talk
about how to choose an eye doctor,
and if that interests you, stick around.
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So today we're gonna talk about how to choose an eye doctor,
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Let's get at it. Okay, so today we're gonna talk
about how to choose an eye doctor.
I'm gonna give you the top three ways
to go about finding the right person for you.
So at the end I'm gonna give you a bonus tip
on how to dig in and really find out
what the local people think
about the eye doctor that you're seeking out
and stick around in the end.
It's really good information.
So choosing an eye doctor isn't easy.
There's personalities that you have to match up with.
You're gonna have to like their staff, their location.
You're gonna have to know
whether you want a big practice or a small practice.
Do you want a more medical-based practice,
or do you want someone who's really good
with just general optometry and maybe contact lenses?
So all of these questions remain out there
and you're gonna have to kind of find your way
through all of this.
So the first thing that I want you to do
is to look at your insurance list.
So let's say you have Vision Service Plan.
Log in, look at the list of your local providers,
pick like five to seven of them.
If you don't have an insurance list
and you're paying out of pocket,
or you're using CareCredit or something like that,
go to Google, type in eye doctors around me
with maybe the zip code
and that's gonna give you a list of eye doctors around you
that you may scope out and take a look at,
and then when you get that list,
I want you to then look at the Google reviews
and for most of them
it's as easy as just scrolling over their name on the map
and it's gonna tell you
approximately where those reviews are.
You're clearly gonna be able to rule out a 3.7
compared to a 4.9,
but some of them may be close,
and when you get down to that point
where you are really trying to hone in on who it's gonna be
then you're gonna go to the next step.
So the next step is going to be
to go to their individual websites
and that's where you're really gonna get a good feel
for who they are.
Whether if you're looking for someone with experience,
you're looking for someone younger
that may be better with newer technologies.
You're gonna get a really good feel for who they are,
and who their practice is and how big their practice is,
and you may be looking for a big practice
or you may be looking for a smaller specialized practice.
When you get to that point
where looking for the information on a website,
you may find something really good
that you didn't know before.
For instance, you go to my website
and you probably didn't know that I am an optometrist
and a nutritionist, a certified nutritional specialist.
You may not have known that
I have been in over 10 major motion pictures.
I really don't think
that's why you wanna choose your optometrist though,
and you'd really not wanna choose me
if you had seen me in those 10 motion pictures.
So now you're gonna really have honed it in
and you're gonna really be able to find the person
who you think is going to be the best eye doctor for you.
So now for that bonus tip at the end.
So if you've chosen an optometrist
who lives in the town you live in,
this could be a really easy one.
Go to Facebook and look for your town group, whatever it is.
We have one in Mansfield called Everything Mansfield,
and do a search for the doctor's name or the practice name
and you're gonna find
all the times that people have asked the question,
I'm looking for an eye doctor,
and you can certainly ask the question,
but I'm telling you that,
I guarantee you that the question has been asked before
and you're gonna get a lot of feedback,
not only on who you're looking at
and what people think of them,
but also on other doctors in the area
that you may not have thought about
or you might have glanced over.
So I think that's a great way to end your search,
and by then you've done all you can, good luck,
because it can be really tough
to find that right fit for you,
and I think that this would work well
not just for optometrists,
but for primary carers, dentists for chiropractors,
for really any medical professional.
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