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| - Full review below, but the end story is I was misdiagnosed twice, my eye infection got much worse and painful, and was left with a permanent scar on my cornea, not to mention the insanely high charge for office visits (2-3x what I spent at the next doctor who fixed the issue). Had to go to a different doctor to clear up the issue.
The story: I came down with an eye infection and urgent care referred me to Dr. Newman. They were able to get me in on the same day with the understanding that I may have to wait a bit, which I understood. After waiting almost 2 hours in the waiting room, I was called back to see Dr. Newman. A nurse did the usual primary tests and then Dr. Newman came in, looked at my eye for about 2 minutes and said that it was pink eye. I asked him if it was possible that it was anything else and he said "no, it's definitely pink eye". He prescribed me some drops, said I'd be better in a day but if not, to come back and see him. I didn't have insurance so he charged me $175 for the visit which seemed high but oh well right? It was a Friday. I filled my Rx, started using the drops, and woke up saturday much worse. My entire eye went from pink to beet red. I got back in to see Dr. Newman after the weekend and he said that he no longer thought it was pink eye but some other infection. After looking at my eye very briefly again, he prescribed me a different prescription, charged me $100 and sent me on my way with the words "If it doesn't get better then you need to go see someone else". WHAT?! I went to fill my Rx and found out that the drug was $300!! But what could I do? I paid and started using the drops and immediately made an appointment with a different doctor after feeling that Dr. Newman couldn't care less about getting my diagnosis correct, let alone treating it properly. The next morning I saw a different doctor (Who took plenty of time to look at my eye and study what was going on). He informed me that every Rx Dr. Newman gave me was the wrong one and very toxic. PLUS one of the drops ulcerated my cornea due to the wrong diagnosis!! The new doctor took me off all the drops Dr. Newman prescribed me, gave me a simple eye drop for infection that cost almost nothing, charged me $60 for the visit, and told me to come back on a week. The drops cleared my infection up in about a day. At my checkup, the new doctor informed me that the ulcer on my cornea caused by the drops Dr. Newman gave me had healed but there was a scar there (which slightly blurs my vision). Not only did Dr. Newman misdiagnose me twice, charge me 2-3 times what this other doctor charged me, and barely spend the time to look at my eye, but due to his poor practice, has left me with lasting effects. I explained this to Dr. Newman and asked if he would, in good faith, reimburse me part of what he charged me since he not only made my eye worse, but also permanently screwed up my eye. They offered me a fraction of what I spent and I told them it was an insult. BEWARE of Dr. Newman. He doesn't care about getting it right; just wants to get as many people through his office and charge them insane amounts of money while making their problem worse. "You'll have to see someone else" is probably his go to phrase when he doesn't want to figure out what's really wrong with you.
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