Bill Harvey: Thinking about tomorrow

I have had to bite my lip this week to stop myself saying something.

It was an excellent hospital optometrists conference this year, held online last weekend (see a full review in next week’s issue). In between the lectures, there were moving tributes paid to Dr Paul Spry who, to our great shock and sadness, recently passed away. As well as his role as heading up hospital optometry in Bristol, readers may remember him as one of the two authors of Optician’s Essential Glaucoma Handbook. It was while editing this that I got to know Paul and I can confirm, without any sentimentality, that it was a pleasure. His amiability matched his accuracy of knowledge such that it must have been the easiest editing job ever undertaken. He will be missed.