Use of suffix or prefix
Although an optometrist in the US enjoys excellent status and adds the
prefix `Dr.’ with his name, there are many optometrists who rather than using
this prefix make use of the suffix `OD’.
When I was a child, a social worker in my home town Rewari, Dharam Veer,
always used the suffix `MA’; likewise another person used the suffix `Prabhakar’,
denoting their respective educational qualifications.
After passing out from Gandhi Eye Hospital School of Optometry Aligarh
in 1961, I joined Sir Ganga Ram Hospital as Refractionist, and at the time of
the opening of a savings account at Bank of India Karol Bagh, insisted on using
the suffix `DROpt’. Although later on on completing BAMS I started using the
prefix `Dr.’, it was amusing to once receive a note from the bank manager
addressed as `Mr. DROpt’!
