Optometrists' main focus is prescribing eyeglasses, as well as screening for eye diseases.

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In 1978 the Federal Trade Commission required optometrists to release eyeglass prescriptions, allowing chains like Lenscrafters to spring up.

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Despite direct proof of efficacy, it is logical to think UV-blocking contacts will help keep the eyes healthy, optometrists say.

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To do so, a long-term study would be needed which compared people wearing the lenses and people who didn't, optometrists say.

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Especially since only 26 states legally require their optometrists to release prescriptions.

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He has also won the animosity of optometrists, who are losing the most profitable part of their business to him, and has accumulated many lawsuits.

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So many of the men and women I flew with went on to careers as attorneys, business owners, optometrists, chiropractors, educators, and even one of our first female pilots.

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He has also won the hatred of optometrists, who are losing the most profitable part of their business to him, and has accumulated more suits than the Duke of Windsor's closet.

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In 1978 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission required optometrists to release eyeglass prescriptions, allowing such chains as Lenscrafters to spring up, but it has thus far refused to make a comparable move with contact lenses.

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The unique roles played by physicians, nurses, dentists, nurse anesthetists, nurse midwifes, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, podiatrists, pharmacists, paramedics, psychologists, and optometrists are well known and have clinical duties, delineated by government, associated with them.

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