Would you really take money from them?

My OD told me a story.  A guy came in, with a one-day disposal contact.  
He had been wearing it for a year.  My OD talked to him, but he wouldn't
listen.  My OD decided that if he was that far out of compliance, maybe
he wouldn't be honest on the witness stand, either.  If he got a corneal
ulcer, he might testify that my OD told him it was OK to wear that lens
for a year.  My OD would present the medical chart as evidence that he
had warned the patient.  The patient would claim that my OD wrote that
chart right before the trial.  No witnesses, one claim against another.  
My OD explained that sometimes juries tend to take the side of the
patient, if it isn't clear.  My OD told the guy he wasn't his patient,
to leave and don't ever come back.  He couldn't afford the guy.

I can't blame him.

Dear Prevention minded scientists,

Subject:  Some Christmas presents -- for our philosophy
             discussion of the nature of fundamental scientific truth.

For our group generally:

    "Two things are infinite:  the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe."

                       Albert Einstein

For those who suggest "conspiricy"  (there is none)

    Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately
explained by stupidity.

                       Hanlon's Razor

For the majority-opinion ODs -- who can not entertain new
concepts in pure science.

    "I know that most men ...  can seldom accept even the
simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them
to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in
explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to
others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the very
fabric of their lives."

                                               Tolstoy

For people who love a fundamental approach to pure science:

    "Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature."

    The task of science is both to extend the range of our
experience and to reduce it to order, and this task presents
various aspects inseparable connected with one another.  Only by
experience itself do we come to recognize those laws which grant
us a comprehensive view of the diversity of phenomena.    As our
knowledge becomes wider, we must even be prepared therefore to
expect alterations in the point-of-view best suited for the
ordering of experience.

                      Niels Bohr

And for Ace, of course.

    "The important thing is to not stop questioning.  Curiosity
has its own reason for existing".

            Albert Einstein

And for everyone -- let use continue to learn together
about the true nature of the fundamental (and dynamic)
eye -- as the second-opinion.

Best,

Otis