When Kinjal Bhatt, OD, opened the doors to Kind Eyes in Chicago, Illinois, on June 29, 2024, it was a long-awaited celebration. The journey to get there was one of resilience over three years of planning, searching, many hurdles and, finally, success. “It was nothing like I expected it to be like,” Dr. Bhatt says. “I was just an optometrist before; now I’m the optician, optometrist and secretary doing everything. It forces me to think in a different way, and I enjoyed that.” The beginning of Dr. Bhatt’s path to ownership moved slower than she expected, she says. Read More