Ophthalmologists are very highly trained eye doctors and qualified to do eye surgery.
Optometrists have less training and can write scripts for eyeglasses and diagnose when someone has a more serious condition and needs to see an ophthalmologist.
Opticians dispense glasses, making them to the Rx written by an optometrist or ophthalmologist.
By my own choosing over the years I have seen both ophthalmologists and optometrists. For my purposes, an optometrist is adequate to do the job.
I did have a favorite optometrist who was a shooter in Stoughton, but he's changed careers. The optometrist we now see (who also fills the scripts) is at least not adverse to dealing with the shooter's issues. I brought a blue gun (plastic) for sighting purposes for him to take measurements for shooting glasses. He told me he wouldn't have had a problem if I brought the real gun in, but I told him that I WOULD HAVE HAD A PROBLEM as it involved aiming at a door where people walk back and forth by it as we are taking measurements.
Dr. Daniel W. Thurm
340 Wood road
Braintree, MA 02184
(781) 794-2200
Dr. Daniel W. Thurm
89A Sharon Street
Stoughton, MA 02072
(781) 344-3335