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Contact lens loophole

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A young woman of 20 came in for a routine eye exam and I asked if she had thought of having contact lenses.

A young woman of 20 came in for a routine eye exam and I asked if she had thought of having contact lenses. She said she already had some from Vision Direct online.

I asked who fitted her and she said no one but she just sent in her spectacle Rx and her mum did I+R for her! They used Vision Direct Dutch linked site for the sale therefore using the legal loophole.

When and how is this going to be resolved?

If I get a Dutch friend to supply my patients I can have more coffee and waste less time in my consulting room doing contact lens fittings! Ahh progress! Everyone is a winner?

Not sure you have an answer but thought I would get it off my chest.

Paul McDonald, Wilson, Wilson and Hancock, Lewes, East Sussex

 

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