Braverman Eye Center

I have been a Patient of Dr Braverman for over 15 yrs, The Office! The Staff, The Doctors, And of Course Dr Stanley Braverman has taken the words caring
Doctor to another level.
I Developed Cataracts from A Medication I was taking, I was so scared I was going Blind. It was a life altering expierence for me.
I am Blessed that I am a Patient of
Dr Braverman, My Story has a Very Happy Ending!
With Special Thanks to
Dr Stanley Braverman who takes the word «Doctor» to another Level, The Care I recieved was and is exceptional!
I highly Recommend This office for all your eye care needs, if you want The Best In South Florida Dr Stanley Braverman is #1.
Sincere Thank You;
To Dr Stanley Braverman and Staff!
I can see Clearly Now!
Your Patient
Anna A Gadaleta

I’m 23 and have been coming here for about 10 year’s I love doctor Heargrave and yes they do have student doctors but they seem to always consult with Bravermen or Heargrave at the end of a diagnoses. I would ask for either of those doctors just in case they are professional and experienced. My only problem is the older man who works at the optical. He’s extremely rude and nasty. He should have been fired and I honestly refuse to get my glasses from Bravermen because of this guy. Arrogant and rude he is bringing the place down.

4 ½ hour wait in the reception room for 5 minutes of time. No one is worth this.
Then he charges 2xs the refraction.

Dr. Braverman is a windbag. He has had several malpractices. Stay away from this place. I found several of his office staff to be downright nasty. Just like one of your writers said, you get young, inexperienced college students doing the entire eye exam. Dr. Braverman just walks by at the end and shakes your hand. I paid several hundred dollars to be seen by an M.D., not a trainee. The doctor is a dishonest cheater who is only interested in the big money clients who do surgery with him. The young female student that wrote my eyeglass prescription (cost me an extra $ 50.00) wrote a bad prescription. I had to pay another eye doctor elsewhere for an exam and he said the prescription was way too weak and way off the mark. When I contacted Dr. Braverman’s office several times in an effort to get my eyes re-​examined by Braverman himself vs. the inexperienced trainee I had, they told me to come back in which I did. When I got there, the staff was hostile and wouldn’t re-​examine my eyes.
My advice is to go elsewhere.

I had surgery done at Dr Braverman in August 2013. My eyes were not too bad when I started, now I struggle to pass the DMV eye tests which I never did before. I was very disappointed with the surgery and would not recommend this company to anyone considering surgery. I spent almost $ 3000 to ruin my distance vision. I wish I had gone elsewhere. Please do you research carefully and remember to ask as many questions as you can.
I am 48 years old and like many of us struggle to see things close up. This comes with age I guess. Last year I went to an eye center to consider Lasik. The doctor said he could cure my close up vision in one eye but that it would be a trade off and that it would compromise my distance vision. The cost for the monovision treatment on one eye would be $ 1500. He inserted a contact lens into the eye to show me the results and suggested I leave it in for a week. Reading close up was GREAT. I was almost hooked. However, when outside, I covered the unaffected eye and tried to read signs, on stores and road signs and they were blurry. I do quite a bit of driving and figured it was simply not worth compromising my distance vision to fix close up which could be easily assisted with reading glasses. I decided to wait until better technology came along.
Around this summer, I stumbled on an article about Presbylasik. This was a new treatment, still in testing stage in the USA so not yet FDA approved (though it was already approved in many European countries). This exciting treatment supposedly cured near and distance vision all in one go with two shots on the laser at the same surgery sitting. It sounded like the answer to my prayers.
I researched many eye centers and spoke to Rosemary Hartford at Dr Bravermans eye center at Hallendale Beach in south Florida.
I scheduled an appointment and had a battery of tests. I then met Dr Braverman who said that he suggested doing just one eye as the other was not bad enough for Lasik at this point. He explained that the revolution presby treatment involved shooting the laser to reshape a part of the eye to correct the close up vision, then recalibrating the laser and firing again (for an extra $ 600) to correct the distance vision. This sounded perfect.
At no time did they ever say that it could ruin my distance vision. They just said that in almost all case it was a complete success. I signed all the usual disclaimers of course. Because this is an off label non approved treatment, insurance companies to not cover it here and I had the pay the $ 2500+ cost in cash.
Dr Bravermans office is very impressive and lots of articles stating how great he is on the walls and pictures of him rubbing shoulders with the starts, I felt in very safe hands.
Came the day of treatment, all seemed OK, it was painless as they said, they fired the first laser, recalibrated it, (they had said something like it tracks the eye 400 times a second to ensure it cannot go off target). Fired again and said all was great. They send me home.
My close up vision was super improved almost immediately. I was concerned that my distance had greatly deteriorated. I could not even read tags of the vehicles in front of me, nor road signs, nor makes of cars, not even writing a few feet away. This seemed just like the monovision treatment that I had refused the year before. I was very unhappy. I emailed Rosemary about this and my distance vision concerns and she brushed me off with the following.
Please do not be concerned. This procedure can take a few months
for the final result. You may notice some fluctuations and subtle changes
but it will improve. We did not expect your distance vision in this eye
to be good right now.
I stayed patient and had some follow up appointments at a local eye specialist. Then came the bombshell. In October I went to the DMV to renew my license. I COULD NOT READ THE SIMPLE LETTERS IN THE EYE MACHINE WITH MY LASIK OPERATED EYE. This was devastating to me, I had never struggled with an eye test in the past and was shocked. I explained I had recently had Lasik and she said I should try again. I read 2 of the 4 and could not get the 3^rd. She said to try so I guessed it (I knew it was one of 3 letters but could not tell which), she was I was correct and to try the 4^th. I simply could not get it I could not even guess. Fortunately she said I only needed to get 3 of the 4 so I got my license. But as you can imagine I was extremely worried about this. 2 months after surgery and I almost failed a basic DMV eye test that I had always sailed through before. Worst still the great close up reading had settled down to be not so great and was now just the same as my other eye. I cannot even read the brand name of my TV on the so called ‘corrected’ eye.
I urgently emailed Dr Bravermans surgery again (telling them of my DMV eye test nightmare) and Rosemary replied with the following
You are just 8 weeks out from surgery and you are right on course.
AVOID THIS DOCTOR

The staff was nice, and after being examined by a very nice student optometrist, I saw Dr. Hargreave. He told me to come back in six weeks to see if a problem with blood vessels he had seen had healed on its own.
Then after the apt to follow up on that problem after six weeks, a friend who had just had eye surgery told me that his description of my problem sounded like macular degeneration. I looked it up on the net, and sure enough, what Dr., Hargreave had described sounded just like wet macular degeneration, so I called the office. And called. And called and called and called.
I never did get a call back from the doctor. A tech called me after my repeated messages five days after my first call. She assured me that it wasn’t macular degeneration, but she expressed that I was being ridiculous. I don’t think it’s ridiculous at all to want to clarify an exact diagnosis. She told me the name of the diagnosis, «pari papillary hemorrhage,» and I wrote it down. I had not, however, been told of that particular name for a diagnosis during my visit.
I had first been examined by a student doctor, who had an excellent disposition. Then Dr. Hargreave looked at what she had found to tell me that he saw blood vessels leaking, but that the problem could heal itself. Then I went to the optical boutique with a new eyeglass prescription.
The man who works in the eyeglass boutique was unbelievably rude, and the staff told me that he’s notorious for being a very rude man– and for no reason at all. He was pretty much hostile, and he disparaged my vision care insurance, regarding me as if I wasn’t worth his time nor his courtesy.
I think that the optical exam was thorough and professional, but I think that it’s entirely unacceptable that once I was told that a problem had been observed that I could not get clarification as to what that problem is after my appointment. It should be considered by any practice to be fairly typical for any patient to call back and ask for clarification about a diagnosis. I shouldn’t be regarded as an annoyance who’s freaking out over nothing.
As for the behavior of the man in the eyeglass boutique– there’s just no excuse for his attitude and behavior at all. He wouldn’t even acknowledge me when I had walked in. When I had returned after a few minutes at the reception desk, he again ignored me. and when he had spoken to me, he was just plain RUDE. Braverman should simply be rid of him.