Monday, June 25, 2012


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’!

Dr. Narendra Kumar, Editor Optometry Today, OptometryToday@gmail.com

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