Joseph’s Doctor Eye Medical Clinic

I agree with some of the things that many of the reviewers have posted. It’s true that the office isn’t kept up very well and is by no means considered to be modern whatsoever. but is that the reason you really want to choose a physician? I’d rather have a competent doctor that honestly cares about my (eye)health and well-​being over one that chooses to awe people with smoke and mirrors by implementing fancy furniture. The staff are very friendly and welcoming. Even after 10 years of not seeing this doctor, the same staff was not only working in the same office, but they remembered my name before I even said anything. I didn’t even have an appointment scheduled. That was amazing! As for Dr. Eshagian, he’s a very thorough doctor and does his best to make sure every patient gets the ultimate care. Sometimes that means that you may find yourself sitting in the waiting room for a very long time. He’s not only an optometrist, he’s also an ophthalmologist. That means he’s an eye surgeon for those of you not familiar between the difference. With over 30 years of various specialty surgery applications this doctor can perform, he definitely has my vote. I surely would not want a fresh out of med school kid to do any type of surgery on me. I would wait for days (if I had to) in order to receive the care and that I have in this establishment. He definitely has my vote — regardless of the shitty furniture.

Appointment was at 1 PM. Arrived at 12:45. I wrote my name down in a composition book. The place was just very old. All the chairs were mixmatched and old pictures were hanging on the wall like a haunted house. I was finally let into the room at 1:15pm. I was sitting in the same room for almost two hours or even more. Terrible service. By looking at other reviews if you know more than one patient has waited for 2+ hours do not schedule them at a specific time. I’ve been sitting in an old chair watching a Jackie chan movie and have almost finished the whole movie by now. I was referred to come here and I wouldn’t ever recommend anyone to come here. Place is a mess and if you like waiting for more than two hours than this may be your place. Also I must add that when the doctor finally came in the room I was not greeted at all. So rude.

Horrible horrible service here! I’ve never been so upset at how the practice is being run. I came here with my grandparents. My grandparents needed their annual eye exam. We called to make an appointment specifically for 2pm and we have been here for 4 hours now… Going on 5 hours, heck maybe the whole day and nothing has been done yet. It’s unprofessional, unreasonable for timing, and just terrible service. I’ve been to a REAL eye doctor with sanitary and updated equipment and my exam was in and out in 30 min. I’ve had quicker service at Planned Parenthood than this place and they can take 2 hours tops too, shoot. This is ridiculous!

I agree with everyone else here. Don’t go! Stop waste of your time here!
I couldn’t find his business on Unilocal before my visit. I wish I found this page earlier.

To make it short from a long horrible experience.
This is one clinic with nice assistants treated horrible by one unprofessional doctor. I waited an hour in the waiting room, and another hour so the doctor just could walk in to check my eyes. Ignored me by answering his non-​stop ringing iPhone. He was even texting. I tried to talk to him and he wasn’t making eye contact. Until i gave him attitude that if I was his wall or his patient.
When he showed me the room of glasses to choose, he told me $ 70 dollars for any of the glasses. All the glasses looked so old fashion like plastic gel color glasses that were popular eight years ago, and they looked so cheap that you can buy them at the 99cent store. I asked him why all of them are $ 70 bucks? If there wasn’t brand or range prices. He straight out told me if I was looking for glasses or brand?
I just walked out from the room and heading out of the clinic. He tried to stop me by forcing me to pay copay. He didn’t treated me as his patient and he made me waste time so why should I pay when I wasn’t given the services? So I just walked out without paying for no services.
Find another doctor even if you get recommended by another doctor for this one, please avoid it. Not worth the waiting, and he’s very disrespectful. This is just one short version experience. I even witness one of his assistant being yelled and she was even crying. This is absurd.

This place is an eye clinic thats all for profit and lacks diginty for there patients and lacks all professional asspects of a medical clinic. You sign-​in in a composition book and the doc is late and lacksadaisy… Mom was referred here by her primary and well we are already here. Hope i would have seen the review s first before coming. Do your self a favor and if you care about top quality service an your eyes dont come

I went with my mom because she was referred here. When we got there I was shocked by the look of the office. The office looked like a funeral home. The lights turned off, the chairs that look from back in the day. I should have notice that is was not the best clinic when signing in. You have to sign in, into a composition notebook. So my mom and I sat and waited. I said hey we should be done in an hour since there was only 1 patient before us. We were there for 2 hours and they never called my mom. The office looks like it’s ran down and the doctor seems rude. I would not recommend this place and if your doctor refers you here, tell your doctor no and to refer you somewhere else.

Stop!!! Don’t go here. Save your time and money. This place is very low class and retro. The office is stuck in a time capsule dating back to the 1960’s. I took my mother here because it was a convenient location for us. Big mistake. Never go anywhere without getting reviews from others that came before you. Their rear parking lot was terribly cramped. We resorted to parking on the street with a meter. The reception room was dark and smelled disgusting. They had a bunch of old dilapidated chairs from the 1960’s probably purchased from a garage sale. The office had the feel of an abandoned hospital. The lighting was dim. All of their instruments had a plastic covering them as though the office was getting ready to close down. We came to his office for my mom’s cataracts. Dr. Eshegian did a few simple tests with his obsolete instruments and immediately scheduled my mom for cataract eye surgery in days. I asked him how long would the procedure take. He replied, «Oh…about 5 minutes». What!!! Is he kidding me? This guy is a joke. He should work at a McDonald’s drive-​thru. He rushes surgery to make a fast buck. Stupidly, we decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. He scheduled our eye surgery at Temple Hospital (disgusting, low grade facility) for 7:30am Saturday morning. He tells us to meet him there at 5am to check-​in. We wait there till 7am and he still doesn’t show up. The hospital attendant tells us later that the surgery was changed to 2pm and the change was made yesterday at 6pm!!! We received no warning from his office about the schedule change. Needless to say, we left the hospital and vowed to never return again. What a big waist of our time. We regret ever meeting this quack. Stay as far as you can from this fake doctor!!!

First off, I read the one other Unilocal Review and decided that maybe they were wrong. My friend had an eye emergency and did not have insurance so I called this place and they said to come now, that currently there was no wait, so we did. We pulled up, very Ghetto on the outside but as being someone who has been medically indigent in the past, I thought we should try, sometimes you find good doctors in low income areas that are trying to help out. So, we enter, the waiting room is full of awful thrift-​store chairs, the walls are dirty and the lights are barely on, we wait, then we are told to go to ‘room 3′ so we do, the light is off in room 3 so i turn it on, low and behold more filth and random instruments everywhere… A woman comes in to give my friend an eye exam, she explain s that it is not her eyesight but that she scratched her eyelid, the nurse lady is not having it and proceeds to have her list the eye chart letters… we wait another 20 minutes, still trying to decide if we should leave, we stay. we are then instructed to go to ‘room 6′, on our way to room 6 i see that room sevens number is made out of a sticky note with a sharpie that says 7. and… that it is dark in there, the TV is blaring and there is an old woman laying on a DENTIST chair… umm .ok…weird. we go to room 6 and it is dark, the movie Rocky is blaring and there are 4 – 5 chairs positioned in the room, three eye machines that have tarps over them and a fax machine, printer and a clock that say 6:45 though it was only 4:45. what? we decide to play ‘draw with friends’ to keep our mind off of this, next the doctor enters the room barely says Hi to us and then proceeds to take the tarp off of the machine, he leaves the room (I whisper to my friend at this point that if another patient comes into this room for an eye exam, we are out) well, the doctor brings another three people into our room, so we leave… im not sure i would go here, granted we did not see the doctor, maybe he is wonderful, but the preface of experience was awful…

My experience with Dr. Joseph Eshegian was terrible. I had an appointment at 2:00 PM, arrived at 1:30 PM to fill out paperwork, and did not leave until 5:40 PM. I wouldn’t have minded waiting, but pretty much everyone that arrived after I did saw the Dr before me! At 5 PM, I was told by one of the receptionists to go into a dark room. After 20 minutes, I was moved to another room. Dr. Joseph Eshegian greeted me, then went to the room that I was in before. A couple who arrived three hours after I did was put into the room, and were seen before me.
Dr. Eshegian spent more time trying to copy my insurance information than actually focusing on me and the eye exam. His first question was «Who referred you to me?» I answered that question on one of the forms I filled out earlier so it was unnecessary for him to ask. His selection of frames was limited, and it was directed towards his senior citizen clientele.
I am kicking myself for just choosing a place that was the closest to me. Avoid this place! I regret going to see him.