Years ago I got sick of obviously wrong eyeglass 👓 prescriptions, and wide variance between different opticians’ numbers, and started writing my own. It’s time to make this a movement! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=211566…
There’s a thousand dumb little cartelized professions like optometry that have no accountability and no incentive to do their job properly and just charge for mandatory gatekeeping. Fortunately, you can bypass some of them... huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/high-str…
You are not annoyed enough about your slightly blurry vision to pressure your government to do something about it for everyone’s sake, but you can do something about it for yourself:
Optometrists also do glaucoma and retinopathy tests (or are supposed to), which is genuinely useful. Realistically if this function were transferred to your primary care nurse, they’d charge twice as much for it. So I do that periodically and throw away the free Rx they throw in
