Re: [Leica] What's An OD?

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

My, my, my! And all the while, I thought you were talking about your Outside
Diameter!
Dan ( With a large OD, himself!)
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Clompus, Dr. Richard [INN] <RCLOMPUS@INNUS.JNJ.com>
To: 'John Hudson' <jahudson@direct.ca>; Leica Users Group (E-mail)
<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 9:25 AM
Subject: [Leica] What's An OD?


> John asked,
>
> I'm curious. What is an "OD" ?
>
> An OD degree is doctor of optometry in the U.S.  I went 4
> years undergrad with a BS in Biology, then 4 years optometry resulting in
an
> OD degree and finally a 1 year residency in a University Hospital system.
> After twenty years of private practice, I decided to work for Johnson and
> Johnson and now find myself learning a whole new vocabulary - like
reduction
> of negative variance, ROI and org charts.  Its actually quite exciting to
> have new challenges and I still get to photograph along the way.  My job
> involves educating 40,000 eye docs in the U.S, about new lenses we will be
> introducing to help folks see better.  Quite exciting stuff.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Richard Clompus, OD