Oh dear, well please just be super careful of coming here. Not going to name any names because I truly still love and respect the doc that I had here but I will be honest. I was specifically referred to my corneal specialist here 6 months ago when I moved from Tampa(that should say a lot in and of itself). I had a blast here every time up until recently. I'm in the medical field as well, so you can bet I stay on top of all the care I receive, but my doc seems to honestly be practicing with an approach that is decades old and is just not up to date with his info. He seemed a bit uninformed about some of the meds he prescribed me and literally exploded on me when I tried to respectfully explain to him that the some of the drops that I was on are not optimal for my disease long term and why that is, and is why I was coming in every week for pain and was having light sensitivity, and I brought up suggestions on what we could possibly switch to instead or remove altogether if he agrees. He literally ended our convo with "you're not the doctor here and I don't have all day. you can pay your money and leave and you can keep your next appt with me next week so we can repeat that test and we'll go from there" and stormed out. He's NEVER spoken to me that way, and I still can't believe those words came out of a doc who I truly loved having, and I'm not going to lie, That actually made me cry when I got back into my car. The tech who always stays in the room to help him looked at me as well for a couple seconds after he left because she couldn't believe what happened either. I immediately found a different doc and am now so satisfied with the one I have. I don't know why this doc was making things more complicated than it needs to be and was stressing him and myself out because my current doc was able to just take me off of the med that I had suggested, and my eye pain and light sensitivity went away.
Another thing, my doc was ready to diagnose me with glaucoma and was ready to send me over to the glaucoma specialist here just from basing it off of two OCT scans that were done on my eye two months apart. Glaucoma is a multifactorial progressive disease that is diagnosed over time through more than just one or two scans/ numbers, i.e dilation exams, visual fields. OCT scans can be vague and can show discrepancies, even if taken back to back, from things such as eye movements, and therefore cannot be used solely to diagnose glaucoma. Im 21 and a nurse and even I know these things.. come on a bit now. Of course
I went to my new doc, had a full workup again... and he said that this is not glaucoma either, not even close. I also don't understand why my doc has to spew so much BS when he doesn't truly know the answer to something I ask rather than just admitting that he doesn't know. His answers really give me a chuckle sometimes bc it's so ridiculous and doesn't even make sense lol.
So many other things to mention, but I will stop here. Yes, I looked at my doc's bio on here... you literally could have fooled me though based off of my experience here, honestly. My life long lesson is to never base anyone solely off of their credentials.
With that being said, the docs here should still be able to help you but it doesn't hurt to also get a second opinion, esp if you're coming in for a cornea problem and seeing a cornea specialist here for it. I understand that even though my doc has 40 years of experience, my particular case could have just been insanely complicated and something he has never personally dealt with before and was why he didn't exactly know how to treat me optimally(or at least that's what I hope was the biggest issue rather than the fact that he was just extremely uninformed about a lot things), and was why it seemed as if we were just going in a constant cycle with my pain and not getting anywhere. Also was informed that there
were 3 or 4 other pts of his who were also "revolving door" and were coming in every week too for issues. Sure hope that the reason why those pts aren't getting better isn't because of this dr's ineptitude in some situations.
Contrary to what everyone else has said, I personally think the staff and techs are all amazing and super sweet. They've always been so attentive to my needs and I am going to miss them loads! Honestly bummed to leave, but I don't think it's safe for me to continue to have him care for my eyes anymore. read more