Pre-reg focus

A change of setting

Pre-reg optometrist, Olympia Haralambous, shares her experiences of the High Street during a two-week placement

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Olympia Haralambous

Olympia Haralambous

07 April 2019

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Anonymous18 April 2019

A dispense every 9 minutes - is this what we teach student optometrists now? What kind of quality care and customer service does this represent? Is this really what our profession has become - a dispensing factory?

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Nicholas Rumney13 April 2019

150 dispenses in three days is one every 9minutes in a 7.5 hour day. Is this for real ?

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