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There is a code that is for injury sustained while your water skis are on fire. Not kidding.

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Opticare is looking for experienced optical sales associates for our Connecticut locations! Licensed and unlicensed are all welcome to apply!
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I've run into a little issue that I could really use some help with. I normally take my CEU's in April. However this year the date of my CEU's falls on the same date as a...

The SH*T will never hit the fan. Obama is going to save us all from ourselves. :rolleyes:

Is there such a program or website out there where my staff could enter in an RX and it spits out the procedure code for insurance?
99.999999% of our business is insurance and when the wrong...

Good morning my fine optical geniuses!

I am formulating a new sales strategy for my company and I am looking for industry trends on multi pair/AR percentages. Does anyone know of a reliable source...

I am running into a rash of both my Optometrists and my Ophthalmologists over plus-ing (if that's even a word) patients.
I would really be interested in hearing opinions as to why this happens...

Do you have experience working in an Optometric practice? If so, OptiCare has opportunities to expand your career path!

OptiCare Eye Health & Vision Centers, one of CT’s largest Eye Health...

I assume by your tone that you're perfect.

Have you ever spent a very long time with a customer, giving them the best service possible, sold them everything under the sun, took their money and thanked them as they left the building, only to...

The bottom of salt water fish tanks is called the substrate. That's what I immediately think of when I hear that word.

Attorney: mr. Optician, did you give mr. Smith the safest lenses available as per his doctors reccomendation?

Optician : Um, no. But he wanted the sale and the doctor said it was ok to.......
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I would like to respond to several posts if I may.
First I would like to thank the doctor who responded to my question. I would like to point out that in this situation I needed a new written rx...

You call the doctor and ask him to rewrite the rx so that the consumer is not strong armed into buying only his lenses.
There are in house brands for a reason. To use the laws against the consumer....

Doctors that specify products on their rx's usually have a dispensary that sell those products.

Even though my customer got upset because I had to give him poly, you could easily have a customer...

That is open to debate. A doctor could easily say that it is.
I once saw a 60 minutes report on eyeglasses that was about incorrectly filled rx's. They took a prescription to LensCrafters that was...

What if he prescribed 50mg of Viagra, but you feel you only need 25mg? If you convince the pharmacist to give you the 25mg version can the phamacist be held accountable for not following the rx?

I have a good friend who is a district manager for Wal-mart corporate. I asked his opinion on this matter and he indicated that any optician that filled the rx in plastic would have been terminated...

Good morning everyone!
Need a little advice with a situation I ran into yesterday. My company frequently has "two for" sales that include cr39 lenses. A gentleman came in yesterday to take...

Thats what I tell my customers when I'm going to pretend to do something to their glasses when nothing is needed.

Customer: "I'm having trouble seeing out of my glasses...can you help?"

Me:...

This is a question that was brought to my attention by an associate of mine.
Our company had a $99 complete sale which included cr-39 lenses. Customer wanted
the sale price for her young daughter,...

SEYMOUR — A town police officer fatally shot an Oxford optometrist Friday afternoon after the man allegedly wounded another optometrist in the latter’s New Haven Avenue office, state police said.
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http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.asp?brd=1281

Now this is breaking news. I've heard of going postal, but going optical?

That is an exellent drill mount. I've never seen one like that!
Looks like a SOB to drill!

Somewhere out there this frame still exists in either new or almost new condition. If you have one please let me know!

Its an old Avant Guarde frame called the Murari 1509 color 6036 54-18.

If...