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Anytime when a patient sees positive results or starts feeling better
regarding their ocular health or vision, it gives me a sense of accomplishment.
It means that I’ve made a difference for them in some way.
In 2014, she opened her own practice, Hall’s
Optometry, in Highland Creek Village.
“With determination, hard work, thick skin and a
sense of humour, you can succeed,” says Dr. Hall.
Her clinic will be celebrating five years of operation
this year and she looks forward to seeing it continue
to grow and succeed.
“I enjoy meeting new people each day, interacting
with new and old patients, educating patients
and being able to lead my team for individual and
practice growth,” she says.
doctor would catch something like that.
A patient’s systemic health is always something we
consider as optometrists, whether patients know it
or not.”
Dr. Hall is also a Toronto area ambassador for the
Eye See… Eye Learn children’s vision program
and a member of both the Ontario Association
of Optometrists and Canadian Association of
Optometrists. OP
“Anytime when a patient sees positive results or
starts feeling better regarding their ocular health or
vision, it gives me a sense of accomplishment,” says
Dr. Hall. “It means that I’ve made a difference for
them in some way.
Dr. Hall recalls a specific case that reaffirmed her
belief that “optometry is not an isolated field” and
that optometrists look out for their patient’s health.
“A man had presented for a routine exam, only
thinking he needed reading glasses. During the
exam, I noticed a lesion on the top of his head and I
asked him about it,” recalls Dr. Hall.
“He was from Australia and had spent a lot of time
in the sun before he moved to Canada. I told him to
see his family doctor or a dermatologist to have the
spot checked out. When he returned the following
year, he thanked me profusely for telling him to
have it checked. He had been diagnosed with skin
cancer, it had been surgically removed and he was
clear. He said he hadn’t been told by anyone else
to have it examined and he never thought his eye
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