Echoes of the Past: Fussy patients

Fussy patients are something that nearly every optician will have. In the ‘All in a day’s work,’ column,  an anonymous optometrist told the story of Mrs Horn, a lively fifty-something patient with bright blue tinted hair, a taste for mauve clothes and a very thin nose.

The optometrist’s first encounter with the patient came when he heard her voice in the reception room while working on some paperwork. Mrs Horn was enquiring whether the new optometrist would be able to fit her thin nose – something that she felt only the former optometrist could get right. She begrudgingly booked an eye test with the new practitioner and ‘hoped for the best.’