P. A. Spear

After moving to the midtown area in 2007 I decided this location would be more convenient for me and seemed like a good place. I was a patient of Dr. Spear and I never had any issues with my vision at my previous doctor.
Ever since my first appointment in 2007/​2008, my vision felt off with the prescription he gave me. He diagnosed me with an astigmatism in one eye and my eyes never felt balanced. I had gone back to let him know this, and he said it’s fine, it’s just an adjustment period because of your astigmatism. So I’m thinking. okay. i’ll trust that. my eyes never adjusted, and I just went back to him this past December and he gave me an updated prescription which I thought would probably correct this and it didn’t. I even purchased new glasses!
I decided to trust my gut, and went back to my old eye doc for a second opinion and guess what… my gut was right. My eyes were completely unbalanced, which is why I had been getting lots of headaches and eye strain. She gave me a new prescription and I can actually see again comfortably.
Don’t go to this guy… if he doesn’t take the time to do the prescription math, or go out of his way to ensure you are comfortable with how you see… then trusting him with your vision is a mistake.

I’ve always had an uneasy relationship with Dr. Spear, my optometrist. It is perhaps the profession that makes the relationship uneasy, but it also is the feeling that I’m never getting a deal. The examinations are good (and blame the Ontario Government for not covering eye exams — do they expect Ontarians to just go blind if they are poor?), but if I want to buy my contacts there, it’s about 2 – 3 times the price of buying elsewhere. And the reason I’ve got from the office, and from Dr. Spear himself is that we need to support him because, get this, he’s so poor. I’m sorry. You went to Med school and make about 10x what I do, so I don’t feel sorry for you. Let me know where to find a deal on my contacts. (got my last set at Clearly Contacts, which was good!)