Inept, Careless and Mean Doctor Warning!
After an eye examination, Dr. Lawrence Gipson of NEOVISION had lenses crafted for me that didn't at all match my eyes. When I attempted to contact Dr. Gipson to get this resolved, I was ignored for months... until---after much stress---I had to make an actual appointment in order to see him.
Initially, I wrote Dr. Gipson a short explanatory letter and mailed it to 2615 East Carson St., providing my full contact info: phone, email, and address. Two weeks later after receiving no response I sent an electronic communication stating that I had sent a letter but had yet to hear back. Still no response. I then wrote a detailed letter and personally hand-delivered it to a young assistant named Ebony. I asked her to make sure Dr. Gipson received it. Still there was no response. Even after I made a phone call and told his assistant Courtney about the letters I had mailed and self-delivered---Dr. Gipson, according to him, received nothing from me until the day before I saw him for an actual appointment.
Why did he not receive my mailed or hand-delivered letters, my electronic communication or phone call attempts to inform him of my letters? I was ignored like this for months. As I see it, either one or both of two realities exist: either Dr. Gipson is a liar, and/or he runs a terribly inept business.
Note: this matter of NEOVISION oversight was enormous!
First there was the examination. I worried about it at the time---a particular (almost comical) flaw in Dr. Gipson's methodology, but I trusted there were enough checks and balances in his procedure to correctly gauge my reading sight. I even told him at the time, as he held various lenses to my eyes, that I could not see the paper he was having me hold out in front for his arm obstructing my line of sight.
His examination rooms are quite small. If he were able to get behind the patients to employ the lenses---instead of alongside them---he could then afford those in the chair an unobstructed view of what he is asking them to see.
So he wrote me a bad script and didn't even come close to properly gauging my reading vision.
The day after the examination I was called back in to NEOVISION by Tommy, the young assistant who had worked with me the day before. The initial frames decided upon were somehow not available, so I needed to chose something else. Plus she had overlooked $150 of insurance money allocated toward my eyewear.
I was glad to come in, as I didn't like the initial frames, and it gave me an opportunity to not only choose a more likable pair, but to ask for single-vision lenses, as I could not see myself needing bifocals, as Dr. Gipson had talked me into the day before. However... my wanting single-vision lenses became a problem.
After Tommy went back to check with Dr. Gipson, he came out and convinced me to stay with bifocals---but he did so in a manner that was entirely presumptuous and imposing. Furthermore his bearing toward his assistant was basically mean and demeaning as he was teaching her how to deal with the likes of me.
After he went through the same bifocal spiel he did the day before, I told him I don't read that way. He then gave me some try-on glasses to gauge how comfortable it would be to read "looking down with my eyes instead of turning my face directly toward what I was reading," but when I did just that, as he instructed me to do, he automatically exclaimed, "See! You read that way." But I don't. Not naturally.
He outright refused to listen to me and imposed something upon me I neither wanted nor needed.
I capitulated in the moment and trusted him that my bifocals would otherwise do me good, and gave in, in part, on account of how mean he was with his assistant. I say as much because Dr. Gipson's answer to me for why he didn't get any of my attempts to contact him was that one of the gals that assisted him was going through something.
This answer made only partial sense to me, because I went through multiple gals in my attempts to contact him. Was there an office-wide conspiracy to keep my letters from him?
What definitely did make sense was that anyone working for him might be subject to a breakdown. I personally witnessed Dr. Gipson demeaning the ladies who work for him. And his interactions with me were quite stressful.
When I was forced to make an appointment to see him he was remarkably arrogant and condescending toward me. He only offered me a refund, and berated the assistant for assisting me as she had.
I wish someone had warned me about this mean hack!
The thin slice I have of Lawrence Gipson characterizes him as a mean and demeaning, arrogant and ignorant, inept and careless doctor!
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