Echoes of the past: Telling the story of child patient

The mid-1960s is the focus of this week’s Echoes of the past retrospective. The week the May 15 1964 issue went to press, Terence Conran opened the first Habitat store on London’s Fulham Road and 12 young men in New York became the first to publicly protest against the Vietnam War.

After reading an interesting thread recently on an optometry forum on child patients and, specifically, no longer seeing them, it’s somewhat timely that Optician should come across an article from the May 15 issue on the same subject.

‘The successful handling of children patients depends, to a large extent, on the optician’s patience and ability to communicate with the child on common ground,’ said the practitioner columnist.