I have been going here for my eyes for ears now and I must say, my last experience was awful. I…read morewent for my yearly eye check up on a Friday afternoon around lunch time.
I go to check in and I am about third or fourth in line; no big deal, it's a Friday afternoon, it's right after lunch, it's bound to be a little busy, right? I arrived early just incase it was indeed busy. It took me 15-20 min to just get checked in There was only one receptionist checking patients in. To me, she seemed very unpleasant, had a look on her face which clearly showed she didn't want to be there and, was just taking her time and had no sense of urgency. There was one worker who asked the receptionist if she needed help to which said receptionist said "no, I'm good". I would have totally been alright with standing in line if this receptionist didn't have the attitude that she did. Her attitude along with taking her time really put a sour taste in my mouth.
After all of that, I am sitting in the waiting room. My appointment was at 1:30. Then 2:00 comes, I'm still in the waiting room - no big deal, everyone expects to wait a bit at the doctors office, right? 2:30 comes, still in the waiting room. An older gentleman asks how long I have been waiting to go in, I told him an hour and he goes to me "I've been waiting almost TWO HOURS!" Finally @ 3:00, I get called in. I get it, doctors offices are busy, 9 times outta 10 we never get called in on time, its expected. However, it's a little ridculous that I waited an HOUR AND A HALF to get called in.
After I get called in, the assistant does her thing, checks your eyes, dialates them and of course, before the check up can proceed any further, the drops that dialate your eyes have to settle in, which takes about 15 minutes. I waited over ANOTHER HOUR before I got called back in. The rest of the check up proceeds and I am all set. I checked my phone, it was about 4:15. I was at the eye doctors for THREE hours for a routine eye check up.
I don't know what happened that day. Maybe they were under-staffed, maybe they over-booked. Either way, this experience put a bad taste in my mouth and I am considering switching eye doctors