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    Consumer Confidential: Coronavirus could accelerate moves toward 'telemedicine'

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Mar 13, 2020 4 minutes

    Dr. Robert Shapiro, a downtown Los Angeles optometrist and past president of the L.A. County Optometric Association, knows his business may be riskier than some others amid the coronavirus pandemic.

    His patients have to make direct contact with exam equipment - the phoropter that fits over your face and tests different lens strengths, the autorefractor and retinal camera that require people to rest their chin in a small cup.

    Then there are the frame fittings and adjustments that require an optician to stand inches from your face and, typically, make contact with your head.

    "There's obviously a risk," Shapiro acknowledged. "But what choice do we have? The only option would be not to open our doors."

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