Chris Bennett: Timely advice is key to any relationship

I’ve been riding a bike for donkey’s years but when I leave the house to go to work my wife always tells me ‘go carefully’.

Now, I know what I’m doing, and she knows I know what I’m doing, but being reminded that familiarity breeds contempt is a harmless, but sometimes necessary, insurance policy.

So why are contact lens prescribers abandoning their duty of care to patients? At a time when Optometry is clamouring to be viewed as a serious primary healthcare provider, grab the ear of government and be better understood by the public, professionals are missing an open goal.