I think you are to narrowly focused on "refraction" as the point. Another way of saying "stand alone refraction" is saying "dont check for anything else". So my beef isn't necessarily with others performing a "refraction" but instead that they arent checking for anything else, and thats the problem. As for "many other diseases" I never said that. IMHO all I have to do is look at glaucoma and see a really obvious and pretty common example.
Now I know this may be difficult for you to comprehend, as in CT there is perhaps no such thing as asymptomatic glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, occult cnvm, retinal holes/tears, tumour, etc but outside of the land of milk and honey those things actually do occur (gasp!) and they do cause problems. Perhaps its all that high socioeconomic status stuff that has sheltered you from such things
. Clearly from your past comments you have seen less then 5 cases of such things over the last 13 years so OBVIOUSLY you are sheltered (a statement which I find unbelievable btw). Whereas I probably have at least that many in the last year, and I know my office is not as busy as yours soooo..........Just 2 days ago some guy comes in thinking something is wrong with his lid, but sees fine and has "no problem with his eyes", which of course turns into 50% RD superior hanging just above the macula. Think he should go get his refraction done? what on earth would be the point of that?
Surely you are baiting me.