It is a public truth that your eyes are one of the most precious organs of your body. This rightly necessitates that you take care of your eyesight. This is turn means that you need to take great care in choosing, and sticking with, your eye doctor.

To choose the right eye care provider for you, it is be helpful you know what separates an optometrist from an ophthalmologist. While the optometrist is a great medical destination for your eye care, an ophthalmologist is the most authoritative source for your vision care.

Ophthalmologists undergo more lengthy, rigorous and technically intensive training than an optometrist. In addition, only an ophthalmologist may carry out surgery on your eyes.

It is not necessarily a quick fix finding the befitting ophthalmologist for your eyes. You may not always jump on Google and quickly find the right ophthalmologist for you. Most times word of mouth works better. This is talking about active referrals. You can correctly consult your friends or even family doctor to give you an accurate recommendation for an ophthalmologist.

An additional step you can take, and an easy one at that, would be to look for reviews of ophthalmologists, or their practices, online. One great resource to find out the reputation of such ophthalmologists is Google. When you go to Google and type in either a practice of an ophthalmologist, or the ophthalmologist him/herself, you can find the star ratings given by patients. Remember, it is not only about the average star rating, it is also important how many people have left reviews. For example, would you put more faith in an ophthalmologist who has a 5-star rating, but only only two people who left their reviews, OR an ophthalmologist who has a 4.5 star rating with 40 people having left reviews?

You can feed your curiosity further by digging deeper into their background information. Where did they go to medical school? Does the ophthalmologist possess any sub-specialty training? Keep in mind that sub-specialty training can be very helpful in the circumstance where you already have a diagnosis and are seeking a specialized ophthalmologist to attend to your specific eye problem.

You should look through the history of the ophthalmologist. Has he/she previously incurred any disciplinary actions say for malpractice and every anomaly.

You can also watch for the interpersonal skills of the ophthalmologist. How well can he/she communicate with you?

The idea behind all of these suggestions is to make sure that you are putting your eye care in the hands of the ophthalmologist in whom you can have the most trust.