John E Bokosky, MD

It is sad to even give my experience here 1 star. While I am sure they are competent professionals, I had no chance to find out in person. I had an appointment a 8:45 a.m. and arrived 5 minutes early. At 9 after my name had not been called, they informed me that I could wait «at least» another hour if I wanted to see a doctor. When I showed them my appiontment card, she just shrugged her shoulders. She asked if I wanted to reschedule another appointment, but to just go through the same thing again? The whole thing was pretty offensive. Again, i’m sure they are find doctors, but they run an awful practice.

Dr. Bokosky performed cataract surgery on both of my eyes and, based on my condition, recommended Bausch & Lomb CrystaLens multi-​focus implants. My previousl Opthamologist wasn’t willing to recommend anything other than single-​focus implants which would have required me to wear reading glasses after the surgery. My eyesight after the surgery is now exceptional and I don’t have to wear glasses. Based on my positive experience with Dr. Bokosky, I can’t say enough good things about his experience and knowledge. He does run a very fully practice at all of his locations but in my opinion, if I have a choice between waiting a little for a doctor that is one of the best in his field vs. someone of a lesser caliber with less patients in the waiting room, I’ll go for the best and wait a little longer.

Dr. Bokosky has a very busy practice. He is one of the BEST in town but you will have to wait to see him. Best to see him at the La Jolla/​UTC location rather than Hillcrest. He did a good job with my cataract surgery. But for basic eye exams you are working with one of his assistant’s and you are better going somewhere else.

Well… it is not surprising to see the horrible reviews this Doctor has — he has earned them. I use the word «Doctor» loosely here. As recently as one month ago, my sister is one of many of his patients that he berrated, insulted, and humiliated.
She has had a surgery by this man at least two times and each and every appointment he subjects her to insults. She is on state assistance as she is disabled. Bokosky shouted at her (in the waiting room) that she was the reason why he pays such high taxes, that he shouldn’t have to treat «‘people like her’» and that she was worthless. He then complained that she was lazy and that he worked hard so that «you people» can have medical care.
I suppose some of this behaviour may be tolerable if his skills as a surgeon were outstanding. In my opinion he is not an outstanding surgeon. She’s had to have the same surgery on her eye (performed by this man) at least three times and she now has to have it again. She will not be going back to this biggoted man who has no business being in the medical field and treating his patients this way.
He clearly has some issues in dealing with people who are from different backgrounds than his and as another reviewer suggests he also has issues with elderly folks.
I wish there was a lower rating than one star.

I wish you could only put a zero as that is all Dr Bokosky deserves.
He is very rude, your appointment is always a minimum of 45 minutes behind. He is always trying to upsell you something. His bedside manner leaves a lot to be desired, and he has an ego that will not stop.
Things he told me on one visit and my husband heard also he denied and then called a staff member in to back him up saying «that is not something I would say is it?» What is the staff member suppose to say, he signs her paychecks. My husband and I both called him on it and looked at us like we were stupid, he talks to you like you are stupid.
Had I not been so far into the cataract treatment I would have gone else where.
Would not recommend him to anyone there is far better treatment out there.

All I can say is Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!
Dr. Bokosky did a procedure call Cross Linking on my son. This was done to stop the progression of keratococnus. We do not live in California, and had to travel quite a ways, but Donna was wonderful helping us plan the logistic of the whole thing.
If you or anyone you know has keratococnus, I would defiantly go to Dr. Bokosky.

I agree with these other reviews. I wish I could rate a zero. The first time I went to his office I heard one of his staff members talking about how an elderly woman was complaining about how rude he was. I then witnessed it for myself. My insurance picked this office for me so it wasn’t by choice. Anyways, Long story short, because of my condition he told me to come back for a follow up, when I came back for my second appt, he gave me a blank look and sarcastically asked why I was there what I needed from him like I was inconveniencing him, not that he spent any more than two minutes with me before asking. I reminded him that HE was the one that told me to come back. I really don’t understand this guy. If you have seen the show HOUSE, he is trying to be like that guy but worse. He tries to make you feel really stupid. He’s extremely unprofessional and should change his career to something where he can work in a room alone. Definitely NOT a people person. I hope he reads this. I feel really bad for his staff. It’s probably miserable working with him.

I took my elderly, deaf father to see dr bokowsky for followup treatment after eye surgery. We saw Dr. Bokosky 4 times and each time he was extremely rude to us and wouldn’t answer our questions in any normal kind of doctor/​patient exchange. Instead he became very defensive and angry if we tried to ask about my father’s prognosis. I have never been treated this badly by a doctor and would never recommend him.

If I could, I wouldn’t give this office, or ‘doctor’ any stars!
I took my 83 year old Mother here for the first and LAST TIME today.
DO NOT use this office, or this ‘DOCTOR’ — we were there for 3 ½ hours! We were moved in and out of the waiting room and multiple rooms, as they shuffled patients back and forth — at one point a ‘doctor’ walked in and shouted at us to ‘Get out! I need this room now!” We saw Dr. Bokosky for a total of 5 minutes, over the 3 ½ hours we were in the office waiting and to top it off — the two procedures performed by techs were completely inadequate. At one point, the tech leaned over to another tech and said «I don’t do this that often, what do you think?»…her response «Oh, it’s fine» and proceeded to kick my Mom’s chair to make room for another patient! After all of the waiting, and two horrible procedures — he walked over and said «You need a retina specialist.» and walked away! The only thing this office is good at, is milking Medicare and Tri-​care patients.
DON’T waster your time with this office, or this ‘doctor’.

I visited Dr. John Bokosky for the first and last time today. He was rushed, never smiled, brusque when he put drops in my eyes to dilate my pupils and did minimum of eye contact even upon entering the examination room. None of this is good service in my estimation, but I certainly would not think too much about it and much less, take my time to write a review. What had me leaving in tears was for him to dismiss my eye pain and ask why I’d visited him after seeing my own doctor, «He and I read the same books and go to the same conferences.» He said my pterygium was not serious enough for surgery, even though I was reporting severe eye burning and irritation after midday everyday.