Persuasive Letter Sample
SAMPLE LETTER 1 – cost of undiagnosed health problems
Many adults with serious health issues – such as a brain tumor, retinal detachment, high blood pressure and glaucoma – look perfectly healthy and would qualify for an optician administered sight test. As an optometrist I have often been the first to detect general health disorders and diseases that have related eye health symptoms. Sometimes the patient notices a change to their vision, and sometimes they don’t. If they are sight tested health issues will be missed. If a patient continues to purchase contact lenses or glasses with no valid prescription year after year, health issues will be missed.
I can’t believe the government would implicitly encourage people not to get a full …show more content…
Gurpreet S. Leekha, and I have lived in your neighbourhood for the past 3 years. I am an optometrist, who moved back to BC after practicing in the US health care system for 5 years in New York City.
One of my main reasons for moving back was I had become tired of being witness to how poorly health care was delivered to the general populace, the under-insured and especially the uninsured in New York City. Having grown up in Coquitlam, and on frequent trips back to Canada, I knew every Canadian received better general health and eye care than most Americans could even dream of. I couldn't wait to come back to live and practice in BC, despite the apparent 20-30% reduction in salary I would have to digest.
Optometrists in NY State have been treating eye disease, prescribing medication, and managing eye health and systemic health conditions for the past decade. On April 1st, 2009, BC Optometry legislation caught up with the United States and much of Canada, allowing optometrists to prescribe medications to treat eye conditions, saving patients a trip to the emergency room or a long wait in a walk-in clinic, and savings thousands of dollars in public health care …show more content…
He decided, without consulting with BC optometrists or ophthalmologists, that as of May 1st, 2010, it would no longer be required to see a doctor for an eye exam, in order to be prescribed eyeglasses or contact lenses in BC. Further, apparently on advice provided by representatives of this internet business, Mr. Falcon decided that it is not necessary for patients to have a contact lens (classified as a regulated medical device by Health Canada) prescription in order to order contact lenses
Many adults with serious health issues – such as a brain tumor, retinal detachment, high blood pressure and glaucoma – look perfectly healthy and would qualify for an optician administered sight test. As an optometrist I have often been the first to detect general health disorders and diseases that have related eye health symptoms. Sometimes the patient notices a change to their vision, and sometimes they don’t. If they are sight tested health issues will be missed. If a patient continues to purchase contact lenses or glasses with no valid prescription year after year, health issues will be missed.
I can’t believe the government would implicitly encourage people not to get a full …show more content…
Gurpreet S. Leekha, and I have lived in your neighbourhood for the past 3 years. I am an optometrist, who moved back to BC after practicing in the US health care system for 5 years in New York City.
One of my main reasons for moving back was I had become tired of being witness to how poorly health care was delivered to the general populace, the under-insured and especially the uninsured in New York City. Having grown up in Coquitlam, and on frequent trips back to Canada, I knew every Canadian received better general health and eye care than most Americans could even dream of. I couldn't wait to come back to live and practice in BC, despite the apparent 20-30% reduction in salary I would have to digest.
Optometrists in NY State have been treating eye disease, prescribing medication, and managing eye health and systemic health conditions for the past decade. On April 1st, 2009, BC Optometry legislation caught up with the United States and much of Canada, allowing optometrists to prescribe medications to treat eye conditions, saving patients a trip to the emergency room or a long wait in a walk-in clinic, and savings thousands of dollars in public health care …show more content…
He decided, without consulting with BC optometrists or ophthalmologists, that as of May 1st, 2010, it would no longer be required to see a doctor for an eye exam, in order to be prescribed eyeglasses or contact lenses in BC. Further, apparently on advice provided by representatives of this internet business, Mr. Falcon decided that it is not necessary for patients to have a contact lens (classified as a regulated medical device by Health Canada) prescription in order to order contact lenses