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Ky<*Doctor Gets Rolls Royce As Gift
It's not everyday an optometrist
ts a call to pick up a shiny Rolls
ryce as a gift from a grateful
tient. But it happened to Harris
rg, Pa. optometrist Robert Jay
orrison. He also has received
veral priceless Persian rugs,
pensive jewelry, paintings and
her gifts from various patients.
If you think Dr. Morrison has a
ther unique clientele, you're
ght. His patients include the Shah
Iran, Princess Grace of Monaco,
jeen Juliana and Prince Bernard
the Netherlands, King Badouin
id Queen Fabiola of Belgium, the
rand Duchess of Luxembourg,
id many other well-known royal
figures.
■ ui auuiuon, ne treats a number
Β American celebrities including
Hill Cosby, Barbara Walters, Billie
Ban King, Mike Douglas, Arlene
Brands, Carol Channing and Rex
Heed, as well as politicians and
Bber prominent figures from
Hennsylvania and other states.
Η One of the world's leading au
Hiorities on contact lenses, Dr'
Blorrison fits numerous celebri
■es, politicians and members of
■oyalty with contacts. At the same
ime, however, he fits many of '
■hem and other patients with cor
Bectûe eyewear. More than half of
Ihe-^ewear dispensed by the
Koctor are fitted with optical plas
kic lenses.
How did he get started , treating
royalty and "big name celebrities?
"I guess I was just lucky," says the
doctor. There's more to his Suc
cess, however, than luck.
The doctor's career began to
"take off" after he authored a
research paper on contact lenses
and myopia that was published by
the American Academy of Op
tometry in 1957. In the early 1960s,
Dr. Morrison's reputation was fur
ther enhanced when he helped
Czech scientists develop soft con
tact lenses, and was granted exclu
sive rights to develop and market
the new lens in the Western
Hemisphere.
In 1967, Dr. Morrison fitted
Princess Maria-Christina of the
Netherlands with special contact
lenses that helped correct her
vision problem. The Rolls Royce
that the doctor was called to pick
up at the dock in Baltimore was a
gift of gratitude from the princess'
mother.
"No matter how many people
wear contact lenses, there will still
be a need for regular eyewear," he
notes. "When my patients come to
me for glasses, I tell them the
advantages of optical plaatic
lenses as well as glass lenses and
let them decide which they want -
unless there's a special reason why
one or the other should be pre
scribed.
HeVkded that his use of optical
plastic lenses also has increased in
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recent years. "About 20 percent of
the spectacle lenses I prescribed
five years ago were made of
optical plastic. Now they constitute
well over 50 percent. "The best
thing about optical plastic lenses is
their light weight," he said.
The doctor noted that glass
cannot be used in some of the
large-size frames that are popular
today simply because the eyewear
would be too heavy. Glass lenses
generally weight about twice as
much as plastic lenses of the same
prescription.
• wnen cataracts are removed, a
patient must generally be fitted
with special prescription eyewear.
Frames with glass lenses tend to
be too heavy. Plastic lenses, on the
other hand, are much easier for the
patient to adjust to."
Another advantage of optical
plastic lenses is their impact re
sistance, the doctor noted. "I re
commend them for children and
also for athletes," he said. The
doctor said he also believes that
scratching is not really much of a
problem today with plastic leiyes.
However, people don't wear spec
tacles for four or five years any
more. They change them more
often."
ne added that most people now
have they eyes examined annually
or every two years. "If you take
care of your lenses during that
time, they won't scratch whether
they're plastic or glass."
For ethical reasons, Dr. Morri
son does not like to discuss which
of his more famous patients wear
contact lenses, "some people just
would not like that information
made public," he explained. "On
the other hand, I have celebrity
patients whom I fit with both
contact lenses and spectacles, and
they talk about it openly Bill
Cosby is one such fellow."
* Dr. Morrison didn't become the
optometrist of celebrities and roy
alty overnight. He became what he
is through hard work and dedica
tion. "It makes all of us who work
in the eye care fields feel good
when we help someone," said the
doctor. "Especially if we can help
him see better the world he lives
in."
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