Dr. McVeigh seems knowledge-able and competent. Appointments are easy to get and usually quick. I get what I need. If you go to him, he probably will be able to successfully perform an eye exam and write a prescription for whatever you need, as well as give you recommendations on what products to use. He gets two stars for this.
Dr. McVeigh's "bed-side manner" is not that great. If you're at all uncomfortable or nervous, he's probably not going to put you at ease, and in fact the way he communicates with you might make you even more nervous. He gets no stars for this. If his bedside manner was just unremarkable, I'd give him one star for this. If it was spectacular, I'd give him two.
I get contacts every year for the last five years now. Every year I have to re-pay for a "fitting". When I questioned why, when I wear the exact same contacts every year, do I have to pay for a fitting that my insurance doesn't cover, they could not provide any good explanation. I can understand the very first year, when they had to try three different contacts before they found the one that was most comfortable for me this was required, but year after year the "fitting" part of the exam that I am paying for out of pocket is literally just "so, you want contacts again?" "yep" "ok, I'll just keep you in the ones your in". Why am I paying $140 for this? He gets no stars for this.
They "gave" me "free" sunglasses that were an "$80 value". I prefer the $6 sunglasses I bought at Kroger over their paltry selection. I can get polarized sunglasses for $20 somewhere else, and they were way more than that here (for polarized). They don't even look good. Plus they mingle the men's and women's sunglasses (and glasses as far as I can tell) and there aren't enough mirrors. I didn't even bother with more than a cursory glance at the glasses after my experience with the sunglasses. I can get glasses online way easier and more comfortably than the glasses here (let alone buy them, which I didn't even bother doing). read more