Not every bad outcome from medical treatment will give rise to a claim of malpractice. Instead, you may have a claim for ophthalmologist malpractice or optometry malpractice if your doctor’s treatment of you failed to comply with the applicable standard of care. The standard of care is usually defined as the treatment decisions and actions that other reasonable providers of similar training and experience would undertake in identical circumstances. Put another way, if many other ophthalmologists or optometrist would have rendered the same treatment in your case, you might not have a claim for malpractice even if you suffered an adverse outcome to your treatment.