Word: optometrist
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HOMER HENDRICKSON Optometrist...
...adequate medical center. It was set up in the shell of the old Spec Club that burned down in 1930. The inside is like a spider-web, with myriads of narrow hallways. Cramped offices lack of storage space, and a tiny den for testing eyes that no self-respecting optometrist would tolerate make life tough for both doctors and patients...
...estimated 150,000 people in the U.S. who are not truly blind have to be treated as if they were, because they have so little useful vision that ordinary spectacles yield them only a faint, blurred image. This week, Columbia University's inventive optometrist, Dr. William Feinbloom, announced that he had found a way to restore workaday vision to about half these patients so that they can read newspapers, watch TV or even do precision work in factories...
...Ottis White, president of the optometrists,* attacked the Snellen chart as a crude test which ignores the way people actually use their eyes. "The new A.O.A. standard tests visual recognition-meaningful vision-rather than mere visual acuity," said Optometrist White. "It takes into account the many distinct skills involved in visual recognition, including light perception, contrast perception, resolving power, line perception and shape perception." The eyes of ordinary mortals could not detect these fine points; to them, the new chart looked like just a lot of heavily drawn figures...
Personal Service. n Toronto, an optometrist posted a sign in his window: "Eyes Examined While You Wait...