My entire family, including my parents, grandparents & siblings have gone to Dr Mendelblatt since the 1970's. I think when you have a multi generational medical profession, a lot of wisdom is passed down from generation to generation, along with all the latest & greatest learned in med school. I started with the senior Dr Frank Mendelblatt & now have Dr David Mendelblatt. They have always been extremely professional, thorough, & lovely to deal with. They don't just push you out, but take the time needed to listen, care & adequately know what's going on. I have a personal friend who's an optometrist & yet I'm willing to drive a much further distance to see David whose an MD. If you're looking for a new eye doctor, I recommend Dr David Mendelblatt with full confidence. :-)
This year unfortunately I met with David Mendelblatt again. I had already been put on antibiotics and steroids drops because I was out of town for the hurricane. He told me everything looked fine after he quickly glanced at my eye and told me to start reducing the amount of drops and he’d see me again in two weeks. I tried that and the infection flared back up and got significantly worse. When I returned and explain that to him he said,” Oh well.. just keep using the drops and eventually at some point you’ll be able to stop.” I asked if there weren’t some kind of negative side effects for continuing these eyedrops long term and he replied, “yes cataracts, glaucoma and others, but that’s why am going to see you again in three months”. This was said in quite a condescending tone. Today is Thursday, November 15 and my follow up appointment, which was scheduled three months ago, was canceled because he’ll no longer be in the office on Monday and everything else is full. I explained that not only was my eye not better but I was having to use increasing amounts of the medicine and it still was infected with mucus coming out of it. They told me they couldn’t do anything but schedule me for the Monday after Thanksgiving week during the day. I had scheduled the appointment so I wouldn’t have to take off work. I wish I would’ve read these reviews before I ever walked in there. Seriously. It happened to me and I still find the whole experience pretty unbelievable. I would highly recommend you find another doctor. David Mendelblatt is awful.
I came back for the follow up and had his father and he was much nicer and able to put me on steroids drops that made the infection go away. The next year I only dealt with his father. I’m a teacher and I seem to get this Eye infection at the beginning of every school year.
If you are a minority be prepared to have others seen before you. You will wait over an hour for the doctor to act as if he doesn't want to touch you and send you on your way after 5 minutes. Terrible service! They need training in diversity .
Condescending, rude, unreliable and no help. First visit when I had one eye that was clearly infected he told me I was just old and had dry eyes. I’m 53-I was 51 then. Old??? In 1 eye??
Rude. Arrogant. Told me how to parent my child. Spent minimal time with us. Seemed annoyed by my question of how long might my sons eye look swollen/infected. This is the cliff notes version. Horrible experience. (Saw Jr. not Sr. from the practice.) IF YOU ARE GOING THEIR FOR A CHILD, FIND SOMEONE ELSE!
Dr. David Mendelblatt so severely misdiagnosed my wife she nearly went blind. She went to him in May 2016 because the vision in her left eye was cloudy. He said she had floaters & it should clear up in a while. She didn't think it was floaters but hey, he's the doctor, right? Six months later, in November 2016 the vision in her left eye deteriorated to the point it was like looking through a tunnel with a small light at the end. She went back to him & he said her floaters had gotten worse & that a cataract that was a #1 in May had gotten a little bigger. He performed NO tests. No pictures, no field vision test, no nothing. She knew something was wrong but she didn't know what so she insisted on a macular degeneration test which was, of course, negative because that's not what the problem was. Two months later, as her vision continued to deteriorate, a neighbor recommended she go to St. Luke's. At St. Luke's she was examined on 2/1/17 by Dr. Katherine Flynn, who after a very extensive examination, with numerous tests, told her there was nothing wrong with her eye & she could find no reason why she couldn't see out of it. She then referred her to Dr Geoffery Kwitko, a neural ophthalmologist. One week later on 2/8/17 he found the reason she was losing her sight. She had a pituitary cyst pressing on her optical nerve. After a MRI on 2/22/17 & another field vision test, he told her she was also losing vision in her right eye & without surgery she would be blind in three months. He referred her to neurosurgeon Dr. Lucy Love whom we met with on 3/8/17. She was fast tracked for surgery & was operated on 3/20/17. Since her surgery she has recovered, by God's good graces, most, if not all the vision in her left eye. We are eternally grateful to St. Luke's, Dr. Katherine Flynn, Dr. Geoffery Kwitko & Dr. Lucy Love for their dedication, their expertise & their persistence in correctly diagnosing & treating my wife's eye condition. Dr. Mendelblatt should be grateful to them as well because if she didn't recover her eyesight I would be sitting in a lawyers office on Monday. If you are a patient of Dr. David Mendelblatt I suggest you run, not walk, run very fast & very far away from him.
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