You would have to be blind in order to miss the name Premier Eye Care (in various spellings) when researching an eye care professional in your area. If you enter the name in your favorite online search engine, you will get pages and pages of eye care professionals with this name. What's going on here?



Less than one hundred years ago, you were lucky to live in the same town as any medical care professional. At this time, the majority of health care professionals were all around general practitioners a sort of medical jack of all trades. A doctor never needed to advertise his services because he had no competition unless you wanted to gallop ten miles to the next town's doctor.

An explosion in medical health came in the 1950's, when huge advances were made in medicine, surgery and medical care. Now, it is impossible for one doctor to know it all. That gave rise to the specialists, who focus their mental and physical exertions on just one area of the body or field of medicine. Eye care professionals like in the countless Premier Eye Care facilities, are such specialists.

Then came the population explosion, especially in the field of those entering medical school. Since being a doctor or a lawyer was seen as highly desirable fields to go into because of the money, there are now more doctors in America than we know what to do with. In one way, this is great for the patients having close access to specialist medical care. But in another way, it means specialists have had to compete with each other as business competitors.

Doctors, dentists, specialists they can no longer just stick their name on the office door and expect to get enough customers to cover overhead costs. All eye care specialists need to be under a company name (or what sounds like a company name) in order to get enough patients to keep their jobs. They have to be under the name of a hospital or get a business name like Premier Eye Care.

This also helps patients in finding an eye care professional quickly. Instead of having to guess at what the doctors specialize in, a name like Premier Eye Care lets them know right away. Another popular name among professionals in America is Care Associates. Dealing with name changes (or similarities) is just one of the hazards of the American health care system.