I made an appointment for an eye exam, and arrived promptly on time for this exam. When I entered,…read moreI was not greeted by the three staff members, who were talking amongst each other, although there was nobody else inside the clinic aside from me. I addressed one of the staff, and I was told that the doctor assigned to perform my eye exam was on a lunch break. This is because the doctor's previous appointments ran overtime, and he/she was unable to leave for his/her lunch break at his/her regular time. Instead, the doctor left for a lunch break at precisely the time I was scheduled for my eye exam.
I live an hour away from Visalia - the place where my appointment was to be held. I purposely freed my schedule to make this appointment. I drove an hour to my appointment, and would now have to drive an hour back, without any results.
I was first told that the doctor would be back in an hour, and I could either wait an hour to be seen, or reschedule my appointment. Though I was upset to hear this, I was ready to wait an hour to finally be seen.
Another member of the staff then notified me that I would have to, in fact, wait longer than the previously mentioned hour to be seen. This is because there were people ahead of my appointment time, who were not yet seen by the doctor, because previous appointments from earlier in the day ran overtime, and now the doctor went to lunch. This staff member explained that the doctor cannot control this schedule, which is why the appointments ran overtime, and other people besides myself would have to wait more than an hour to be seen.
There seems to be no respect for the time of their customers. It doesn't make sense to then schedule people if the doctor cannot keep up with the appointments, such that everyone can be met in a timely manner. Furthermore, I was not notified of this delay ahead of time, and had to drive an hour in order to learn this information.
This place will disappoint anyone who has an expectation of satisfactory service. This is a private establishment, which seems to have no care for the wellbeing of its customers, which necessarily affects the wellbeing of its business. I am indeed very disappointed, and if you value your time, this is not the place to service your needs. I regret not looking at the reviews of this place before I made the appointment. Now, I see how 1 and 2 star reviews are consistently cropping up. I am wondering how these reviews keep cropping up; it seems as though the business owners are completely ignoring people's comments about their experiences. I am, however, glad that I avoided this service completely, having read some of the stories of others who were not as fortunate.