Lions Eye Institute

If I could give negative stars I would. After a 2 hour drive there , I and my wife arrived 30 mins early. The joke was on us, after 10 minutes of paperwork we waited approximately another hour before I was seen. Not a single person there referenced or had any knowledge of any of the information I put down on this paperwork including past conditions and medical history. They put you in a broom closet sort of room with your back against the wall and have you vaguely read letters off of a chart to see not precisely what your vision is but just generally that you see close to 20/20. Then they dilate your eyes. After that I waited about another hour. Then a polite gentleman brought me into room to do some preliminary scans of the eye acquiring certain images. Then more waiting. Then finally Dr Habib agreed to see me, and basically said he was going to wait until my next visit to actually use their best eye scanning machine, which was the only reason I was sent here from a different specialists' office. I told him flat out that considering it's a 4-Hour round trip for me I expected they were going to do better testing than the other specialist, he begrudgingly agreed to use The "Optimus" machine to scan my eye. His technicians then had me sign a consent form that I made it clear to them I could not read because my eyes were dilated. They did not read it to me or ask my wife to read it to me. His technicians then proceeded to miss my vein with color dye chemicals -which only now after approximately a month has the color faded slightly from my arm. After this Dr Habib then brought me into his office and told me he wanted to prescribe steroid eye drops with "nasty side effects", but only for 3 months, because of the side effects. So then he would prescribe me a steroid pill to not only affect my eyes but my entire body and the pill also has nasty side effects. Again for only 3 months. Then he wanted to put me on an autoimmune disruptor. All of this for an eye condition(Uveitis)that they do not know the cause of. I have gotten a few other medical opinions and since been prescribed Ivermectin, which almost immediately started solving the problem. It has been approximately a month and my vision is easily 90% better than it was prior to my visit to this office. No "nasty side effects", no monthly visits to an office 2 hours away, which was also his plan- to have me visit every month.

I had surgery with doctor Rubenstein he was awesome great beside manners very attentive called to check on me the next day he did a great job thank you

I have full confidence in there abilities,