re: Are we sure optometrists should do eye surgery w/o going to medical school?

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One slip up and someones vision can be permanently lost. Do we really want to cut corners with this?

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i do understand that the magnitude of the potential damage is huge for sure, and it would be stupid to ignore that fact. and obviously, i'd expect an optometrist to be more likely to make such a mistake (although the number of such mistakes by ophthalmologists is also likely to be nonzero, btw). i'd expect such mistakes to be vanishingly small for both.

my point is just that the real-world increase in probability of such a slip up may be extremely small, and that the severity & probability of the damage must be weighed against the potential savings, imo