The medical specialty that involves the treatment of eyes and diseases associated with the eyes is known as ophthalmology. This is not to be confused with Optometry. An Optometrist is a trained health care professional that is licensed to provide primary eye care to patients. He is a doctor of Optometry, not a medical doctor. However, in addition to a 4 year undergraduate degree, an optometrist must also undergo an additional 4 years of professional education in a college of optometry. Optometrists may diagnose and treat visual conditions such as nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperpoia), astigmatism and presbyopia (the loss of the eye\u2019s ability to change focus).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An Ophthalmologist on the other hand is a medical doctor who specializes in eye and vision care. In addition to a 4 year undergraduate education, an Ophthalmologist must attend 4 years of medical school, a year of internship, and must complete a three year residency program in Ophthalmology. Some ophthalmologists spend an additional year of two in a fellowship program to receive additional training in a subspecialty like retinal diseases, glaucoma, cornea and external disease, pediatric ophthalmology or plastic surgery. An ophthalmologist is trained to provide a full spectrum of eye care ranging from prescribing glasses to performing delicate and complex eye surgery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As with most types of medical malpractice cases, eye cases require screening by other trained ophthalmologists (or optometrists where applicable) to determine whether the vision loss or other bad outcome is a result of medical negligence or whether it is a recognized and unintended complication or risk of a procedure which is not legally considered to be medical malpractice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1859,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Eye Cases - The Cochran Firm New Orleans","_seopress_titles_desc":"Ophthalmology is a medical specialty that involves the treatment of eyes and diseases associated with the eyes.","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[81],"class_list":["post-2028","sub-practice-areas","type-sub-practice-areas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-malpractice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sub-practice-areas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}