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Dear Frustrated,
Yes, you are being
snookered, shammed and bamboozled... You indeed do own the
entirety of your records, since they have an impact on the
quality of the eye health care you receive in the future.
You can demand these records, though legally the prior
doctor has the right to charge about a dollar per page.
Talk to the prior eye
doctor, but if you receive no satisfaction, the FTC has a
rule that levies a hefty fine on optometrists who refuse to
give patients their Rx's... The FTC has a toll free pone
number that you can call: 1-877-382-4357...
At my office, we make a
concerted effort to provide not only a copy of the Rx for
glasses and/or contacts, but we also write down for the
patients records any ocular abnormality, so they can show
their records to succeeding Optometrists... In other words,
what we do here is practice the "Golden Rule", treating each
person as we would want to be treated!! When you think about
it, life is much too short to go by anything other than
this.
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