Anwar Eye Center

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A great ending to a scary story...

I had appointments with Carr Eye Care's Dr. Watson in Beckley at the same time for both my husband and myself. However, once we got our new prescription glasses, BOTH of us were seeing WORSE than with our old prescription.
I scheduled re-exams for both of us - the optometrist told ME that I had "answered the questions differently than I had the first time". During my husband's re-exam, he stopped part way through and left, coming back with a referral to Dr. Blaydes. When my husband asked why, he said that he had seen a "lesion" and needed to be seen by a specialist (no explanation as to why he had missed seeing this "lesion" on the first exam). This caused untold stress and worry for both of us, because his brother had been diagnosed with cancer after an eye exam showed "lesions."

When my husband went to Dr. Blaydes, he very cheerfully said "Oh, yes, I get a lot of referrals from him!" and began the process of scheduling him for cataract surgery (for a very small cataract that he had been born with and told the optometrist at Carr about during the first exam). When my husband asked about the "lesion" and started questioning if the glasses prescription he just got was different than what Carr Eye Care wrote, he said that he couldn't speak poorly about his colleague and that his office would make a new pair of glasses for my husband. My husband said "so your first concern is for your colleague, NOT your patient?!?" When Dr. Blaydes said yes, my husband said that got up and left.

I scheduled an appointment for him at Anwar Eye Center in Moundsville (170 miles away). That doctor said that he performed cataract surgery for his patients, but he felt that it would be many years before he would recommend surgery for my husband. He found NO "lesion," and said that the prescription written at Carr was FOUR strengths higher than what my husband actually needed.

Take my advice..... Anwar Eye Center is honest and professional!!!