Letter: Be curious and never give up

Last week’s Optician report of dispensing optician Ian Jordan being erased from the GOC register prompted a reaction yawing between sadness and anger. Sad because having worked with Ian many years back he always came over as enthusiastic and committed to deliver benefits to disadvantaged patients.

You could not but be impressed of his then work involving a new word for us, dyspraxia, whereby a patient might rub along the walls of a corridor, but, having a chosen spectacle lens filter, later managed to travel a straight line down its middle. Perhaps a Hawthorne or placebo effect but the beneficial outcome to Px and parents must have been very welcome. Did Ian over those years switch from ‘we may be able to provide visual help’ to ‘I can cure you’ although along that road there must have been very many patients whom felt encouraged and grateful over their improvements.