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Re:Dexcom starts selling its new over-the-counter glucose mo... by OutOfHere on Sunday September 01, 2024 @04:29PM (#41420101)
The situation is actually much worse. If you go to an optician to get a prescription for eyeglasses, assuming you pay via your insurance, if the optician believes that you will not be ordering glasses from the optician, the optician intentionally and vindictively gives you an erroneous prescription that is off by 0.5 in one eye, leading to a lack of focus when seeing at a distance. It took me many years to catch on to this scam because I had to distinguish it from the prospect of Zenni shipping out bad glasses which they didn't.
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Re:Dexcom starts selling its new over-the-counter glucose mo... by hirsin on Sunday September 01, 2024 @04:40PM (#41420202)
This is malpractice, so if you have evidence of this you should consider reporting them. Certainly I've never had this issue with my opticians, but have certainly had plenty of bad Zenni glasses.
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Re:Dexcom starts selling its new over-the-counter glucose mo... by OutOfHere on Sunday September 01, 2024 @04:52PM (#41420308)
When you say "bad glasses", distinguishing the two is exactly something to worry about. I found that the problem disappeared when I started paying hard cash for a prescription, although it still varies by the practitioner.

Fwiw, it would be very hard for the government to correctly investigate and accurately prove in court, since it will require a statistical proof over many patients that get tested at both good and bad places.

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Re:Dexcom starts selling its new over-the-counter glucose mo... by ipaddr on Sunday September 01, 2024 @04:50PM (#41420286)
Are you so certain after hearing a first hand account?
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Re:Dexcom starts selling its new over-the-counter glucose mo... by voisin on Sunday September 01, 2024 @05:19PM (#41420478)
> If you go to an optician to get a prescription for eyeglasses, assuming you pay via your insurance, if the optician believes that you will not be ordering glasses from the optician, the optician intentionally and vindictively gives you an erroneous prescription that is off by 0.5 in one eye

You state this like it is standard practice, like all opticians do this. What evidence do you have?

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