On 9/10/24 12:22, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:54:21 -0700 "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> wrote: Hello James and Larry,Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist.In the UK, Opticians businesses typically have on Optometrist on the premises. Consequently, the term Optician is often used to include Optometrists. A distinction is rarely made by the general public.
In my experience: store | optometrist | optician ------------+-------------+---------- Walmart | ? | yes former dr | yes | no current dr | yes | yes glasses src | yes | yes So here, it's hit and miss. I agree about the name confusion. -- I can offr you some indstrial-strngth Beef, Egg and Onion pies; srved with a healthy amnt of bked beans, if that doesn't get your emissions of Eggdimethyl Beansoxide up to a lvl which cnstitutes a violation of the Geneva Convention on chmical wrfare, I don't know wht will. -Tanuki