I very rarely give one star reviews, but I feel like my bizarre experience here warrants one.
My first appointment....I went there only needing a basic eye exam mainly to update my contact prescription, glasses too, but that was secondary. The receptionist couldn't have been nicer, she was friendly and personable over the phone and in person. When I got there, I was a little bit surprised at how dated all of the equipment looked, but whatever, it is what it is. Typically, every eye appointment I have ever had has lasted maybe 30 minutes tops, in and out, new prescription, done. Not so here...during the hour and half that I was there, Dr. Burge used every piece of equipment in the building...3 different rooms, eye dilation, the "air puff" test, slit lamp exam, some other test that he wanted to "use me as a guinea pig" for, along with the rest of the standard tests. After an hour and half, I was told that there was a problem with my cornea and I was to use eye drops every day and come back in a month. So...I left with no contact prescription or glasses prescription.
Appointment number 2...after a month of eye drops, I went back. Dr. Burge did another slit lamp exam...for a full 5 minutes (a long time to have a bright light shining back and forth over my eyes). He then left the room for no less than 30 minutes, came back with a medical book and flipped through it looking for an answer to what could be wrong with my corneas...I sat through 15-20 minutes of a doctor trying to look up answers from a text book essentially. I left, again, without a prescription for my contacts (I did get my glasses prescription after asking for it), and a prescription for an antibacterial eye drop (when I asked if it was infection being treated, I was told no...this "might work though". Come back in a week and if it worked, great. If not, he would give me a prescription for steroid eye drops to see if that would work, followed by another appointment). ...another hour or more wasted...
Well...I never filled the prescription for the eye drops. Instead, I got a second opinion from another eye doctor, and lo and behold...nothing was wrong with my corneas or any other part of my eye, and I left that doctor's office with updated prescription in hand and new contacts in my eyes. So thanks to Dr. Burge, I used up the one eye exam my insurance allows per year, and had to pay out of pocket for another exam from a different doctor just to get my prescription updated.
I would say if you value your time, probably look for a different eye doctor. read more