The last of our exercises relating to legal issues in the modern workplace focused upon an area of some debate. Namely, does the inclusion of a minor addition in a bid to offer some support to accommodation in order to alleviate symptoms related to near work constitute a part of a prescription. And might their recommendation outside the test room mask any other causes of symptoms, such as decompensation of a near exophoria, something that an addition might in fact exacerbate.
The case
An optometrist at your place of work (not part of an NHS hospital), has prescribed for Mrs Joan Fernandez a 31-year-old bursar at a local private school, who attended with asthenopic symptoms and occasional diplopia at near when tired, the following spectacle Rx for her to wear generally and particularly at work where she used computers extensively:
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