Wrong profession, wrong direction

I genuinely feel sorry for Max Davison, as it is clear from his letter (optician, July 1) that while he may be feeling frozen out, he is in fact frozen in the wrong profession.

The answer to when is optometry going to be funded by charging for clinical time and not by selling peripheral products is never. Spectacles and contact lenses are not peripheral, but central - historically optometrists' income has always been derived in the main from selling product. This is not going to change. Surely Mr Davison knew this when he entered the profession?

As for leading the way - no one will, but Mr Davson is always free to stop selling these products and bump up his eye test to something like £75.

I fear that no queue will form to pay for and experience his clinical expertise alone.

I do not know where those people who are supposed to be defending the future of his profession are, because they do not exist.

Why is he paralysed by the problem? Simply because there is no road to his particular Shangri-La.

David Levy
Radlett, Herts