"Optometrist" is not a word that immediately conjures up images of eye charts, glasses, and contact lenses. One's mind likely leaps to the kind of ocular oversight applied to making sure one's vision is as sharp and clear as possible. Yet, did you know optometrists can also see beyond your eye health-sometimes even detecting issues of major consequence long before any other healthcare practitioner does? This might seem unbelievable, but it's an inseparable aspect of the scien