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View submission: Are opticians just glorified salesman's now?
I know at least one person who's optometrist has saved their life by noticing early signs of rare cancers, and mine had a nerdy chat to me about providing a complex custom prescription for someone who's eyesight is nearing blindness (on my noting that my prescription was now very high and him pointing out it's not the highest he's provided!). If it means the same frames cost a few quid more, I want that guy dealing with my eyes, doing my eye pressure tests and retinal imaging.
Really don't know what point you are trying to prove with this. Specsavers optometrists do this too.
Comment by Ybuzz at 27/01/2025 at 00:29 UTC
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Maybe it varies by location, but my local Specsavers is very much the fast-food of opticians - get in, buy something, get out - complete with people doing eye tests who weren't qualified or trained to do so (because I knew someone who worked there and was asked to do this when only trained to be a shop assistant before they quit).