I have always called " customers ", customers. They are not your patients. This is a professional "retail" business. You are not a Physican, neither is an OD. They are refractionist. Diagnostics is their game.
I know, some states allow OD's to treat some problems with drugs, this does not make anyone a "doctor" as in physician, surgeon or Medical Doctor. Now a lot of them advertise "medical eye exams".
In the middle ages a barber was called Doctor of the Short Robe and would also practice bloodletting and some dentistry.
My insurance man is named "Doctor .......the 3rd, and his son is the 4th.
His legal name.
I know a few preachers who are called doctor and have never set foot in a college.
College's give honorary doctrates to anyone they choose, ie. Bill Cosby, funny man and actor, doctor?
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