OTC Readers

[Barry Santini]

I know we've been over this before but it just grates on my nerves and it irks me even more when they want me to be complicit in their "menace to society" by repairing them. Grrrr!

We need to show or demonstrate the harm, Wes. Show the harm of using OTCs!

Barry

[kcount]

I sell readers of all sorts, actually its been a great leader to get people in the shop. As an ECP I'm picky about the product, but as a business man I have to do whats working. So I dont go for the supper cheap stuff I could get (Can you say $6.00 for a dozen?) but I'm not going to pass up a new customer, more often than not its allowed me to help them with their Rx product going forward. If not, well people buy 3-5 pairs of OTC readers annually.


KC

[Uilleann]

Yet, you can't legislate that all violins will be *stradivarius* in quality. And the same applies to eyewear.

Aw, I dunno...I think we should all shoot a bit more for Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesú. A real master. ;)

[njeyedr]

To not give patients the option of magnifiers makes an OD seem like that OD was more interested in eyeglass sales than the exam.

Sometimes those magnifiers are in the patients best interest.

I agree with Harry. Occasionally you get patients with same or close-to-same Rx in both eyes that ask if OTC readers will be bad for them. If they are not contraindicated, I think we should let them know it's an option.

[SeaU2020]

Have you seen these new Dr. Scholl's orthodic support machines in some of the drugstores? Apparantly you get down to your stocking feet and the computer "measures" your foot and then pops out a lot # for the right shoe orthodic to buy....I'll bet podiatristS just HATE them!
So now what we have is a bunch of people walking around with limps and headaches because they fixed it themselves.