Bill Harvey: Straight between the eyes

I am currently working on the first article in a major series on dispensing, written by Peter Black, due to begin in next week’s issue.

One of the first things I learned in this job was to develop a reasonably thick skin. One of the earliest CET articles I was involved with (and this was when CET was not compulsory) was a discussion of pachymetry and how different corneal thicknesses influence the reading taken with tonometers. Possibly because there was a discussion included of why a single conversion factor was not likely to be established, the article received some negative feedback. This was from the ‘why should we know about this? – our job is to supply glasses and contact lenses’ or ‘we are not doctors’ school of thought.