Overheard Optometry

15 Ways Patients Tried to Deny That Their Vision Got Worse

THERE’S SOMETHING infuriating about patients who claim “I can see fine” but have 48-point type on their phone and a selfie stick to hold the phone at a comfortable distance. Meanwhile they’re squinting to read the Wi-Fi password in the waiting area.

Why won’t they just admit that they can’t read their books or street signs? Maybe they’re all in on this massive, worldwide joke and planning to force eye doctors into an early retirement.

At least there’s one upside: ECPs can rejoice in sharing their patients’ unique claims of how their vision did not change. Can your patients beat these stories?

Certainly, Captain Jack Sparrow. Who needs the other eye anyway?

Maybe I can pick this up at my next yoga session.

How often do people read, use the computer and drive anyway?

Companies should invest in rechargeable prescription lenses already.

Just leave it to the experts in space…

Looks like this optometrist got caught read-handed.

Maybe the optometrist was having an off day and didn’t mean to prescribe glasses last time.

Why on Earth would we want to do that?

There’s distance, then there’s television distance.

Or just carry that selfie stick with you everywhere …

Why didn’t the phoropter fix this patient’s eyes? We’ll never know.

But no changes at all. You see, vision isn’t actually seeing. It’s a state of mind.

Good save, optometrist.

They’re onto us.

Have we been reading letters wrong this entire time?

Elvira Derhovsepian

Elvira Derhovsepian is an ophthalmic scribe and the creator of the social media platform @overheardoptometry, a community of people who share their unique (and sometimes so very common) stories in eyecare. Derhovsepian recently published the first volume of the Overheard Optometry book, now available at Amazon, and enjoys freelance writing and editing in her free time.

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