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Eye surgeon: my optician's office has a surgeon giving basic eye exams. i need glasses and am so fortunate that he has 43 yrs. of experience. yes?

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Yes: Prescribing glasses without making a spectacle of yourself gets easier with years of precribing experience. Often the ".Correct" prescription will not be accepted by a patient. Tweaking "correct" prescriptions to make them acceptable to the patient is helped with years of experience, .

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Answered 11/24/2019

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