Weird One

[edKENdance]

Figured you'd get a kick out of this one. Had a lady in on Social Assistance. Previously she had worn a progressive but said she didn't like them. Since assistance up here will only pay for a lined bi-focal I didn't think it would be an issue. She had never heard of a lined bi-focal lens before so I pulled out a sample and proceeded to show her how the lens worked. She seemed incredibly apprehensive about it and told me that she'd have issues which would lead her to FALL DOWN THE STAIRS because that's what happens when she wears her progressives. It was at this point I decided that we were gonna only give this lady SV lenses ever. I'm in Canada and I can't for the life of me remember if I ever feared the possibility of a law suit before but when someone tells you that putting them in a multi-focal lens will lead them to fall down stairs how to do you proceed from there?

[chip anderson]

Not sure you are the liable party. Any more than a pharmacist is. If you fill the Rx as written, it's the good doctor who's behind is on the line.

Chip

[edKENdance]

Not sure you are the liable party. Any more than a pharmacist is. If you fill the Rx as written, it's the good doctor who's behind is on the line.

Chip

That's the thing. A pharmacist just fills the RX. We can do a number of different things with it. Dist, Near, Both, etc... I don't want to have to deal with this lady coming in with a broken leg regardless whether I'm liable for it or not.

[TLG]

She's whining; glasses don't cause her to fall down the stairs or we would all be spending our days picking ourselves back up. The Entitled come up with the best stuff :).

[edKENdance]

She's whining; glasses don't cause her to fall down the stairs or we would all be spending our days picking ourselves back up. The Entitled come up with the best stuff :).

Maybe I just fear self-fulfilling prophecies.

[opticalcathy]

I would refer her out, the minute they start with falling, slipping, crashing etc.. they are lawsuit majors, forget it.