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The range of difficulties in clinical practice of doctors – mainly GPs – with inherited colour vision deficiency was determined by questionnaire and related to results of colour vision testing for type and severity. Many difficulties were found, more amongst those with moderate or severe defects, and doctors’ attitudes to their own colour deficiencies varied. Vocational screening and counselling for prospective doctors should be considered.
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Spalding, J.A.B. (1997). Doctors with inherited colour vision deficiency: their difficulties in clinical work. In: Cavonius, C.R. (eds) Colour Vision Deficiencies XIII. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5408-6_55
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