Island Eye Physicians & Surgeons

So where do I begin, probably at the moment I walked into the lobby. There were three young women behind the counter and one woman roaming around the glasses with a white coat and no one had the courtesy to acknowledge my presence, I was the only person in the lobby. I stood for a while, ignored, and finally sat down. The woman in the white coat said that someone would be with me shortly. Still no one even looked up so I sat waiting.
After several minutes one of the women behind the counter asked if she could help me and we started the paperwork. Since I had plenty of time, I read through all the small print and when I pointed out a section that stated I could «opt out», she had no idea what to do and said they would have their manager get back to me. After the exam no one could still find me an answer.
Going into the back room, I was met by an equally unhelpful and unpleasant woman who proceed to ask ridiculous questions like «do you always wear these prescription glasses»? I said only on sunny days. She asked about my other prescription glasses then asked if I got the prescription at different times. I told her I got them at the same time as they were the same prescription. Things did not improve.
Finally Dr Ellis entered the room. A small weasel of a man who had a similar greeting as his staff. He looked at my eyes with a bright lit instrument and said my eyes looked healthy, handed me to pamphlets, asked if I had any questions and left the room.
The only question I would have had would be «how could you be so blind as to not know that you are a souless and uncaring eye doctor»?
I will never go back and would rather gouge my own eyes out before ever going back there again!

I just had an excellent experience with Island Eye employees and with Dr. Brown, in particular; and I’m pretty picky! I highly recommend them.
I’m visiting Anacortes, woke up with what I thought was an eye infection and hoped to see a doctor ASAP — although figured the chances would be slim since I’m a visitor and its Friday. Although they were booked solid the receptionist kindly offered to «fit me in» but, she said, «you might have to wait». Waiting time was just a few minutes before I was taken to an exam room where a very efficient and competent assistant asked lots of questions and ran several tests. Dr. Brown arrived soon after. She had already read the form I filled out and the information gathered by the assistant. She examined my eye and solved the problem. I was so impressed with how thorough she is that I might make her my primary eye physician — even though she’s 3000 miles away from my home.

We waited over an hour past our appointment time (the appointment was for a young child, so a long wait was especially frustrating), an no one seemed concerned or apologetic about the wait. The opthamologist we saw had a lukewarm bedside manner and part way through the appointment forgot whether my child was a boy or a girl, even though he had her chart. Doctors who are not good with children should not see child patients!