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Limberg Eye Surgery

Arroyo Grande, CA

Cynthia of Pismo Beach, CA September 10, 2009

Dr. Limberg's staff wrote wrong eye-glass prescriptions for my husband on one occasion recently, and then for myself, most recently. They prescribed an unnecessary procedure for me (which I found out was unnecessary, see below) and they did not have my most recent visit to their practice in my chart AND they had another patient named Cynthia sign my chart on the privacy policy page, so this means that they had pulled the my chart at some point for another patients exam! So, their record keeping is incomplete and slipshod. And, their service and diagnosis are unsatisfactory and incorrect.

After they took photos of my retinas, Dr. Limberg's staff also recommended, based on the wrong prescription diagnosis by his assistant (Randy, no credentials for him are known or displayed in their offices), that a flourazine dye injection study needed to be done on my retinas, because Randy claimed I may have retinal anuerisms, which led to the 'drastic' reduction in my prescription, which I found out later was incorrect to begin with. I knew that I wasn't seeing perfectly, but did not feel that my vision had changed that radically since my last exam in August 2008, by Dr. Rippner with Dr. Limberg's practice. Because we were suspicious about the prescriptions being wrong to begin with, as my husband's prescription had been wrong the month earlier as written by Randy, we went for a second opinion to another doctor before I had my appointment with Dr. Limberg's retinal specialist, Dr. Marc Lowe, who was new to Dr. Limberg's practice, and we were uneasy about seeing Dr. Lowe. On our visit to Dr. Michael Jacobs for my second opinion later the next week, we found that Dr. Limberg's (well, Randy's) prescription was incorrect, and the second opinion physician (Dr. Michael Jacobs) saw no reason for me to have an invasive dye study done. My vision had changed somewhat, but not to the degree that Dr. Limberg's assistant, Randy, had asserted.

Further, Dr. Jacobs explained that a flourazine dye study was only necessary when retinal aneurisms were DEFINITLEY present, which Dr. Limberg's team would have seen in the photos of my retinas, and they should have told me so at the time. They did not do this. They told me that the dye study had to be done to DETERMINE IF I had the aneurisms. It was only after much persistence that I was able to get Dr. Limberg's assistant (Randy) to explain to me, in a hallway with other patients coming and going, what was going on with my eyes at this appointment.

Randy also told me that if I had the aneurisms, that their retinal specialist, Dr. Lowe would ZAP them with a laser. I asked him what that meant, and he said to me, 'You know, GET them with a laser.' There was no REAL explanation of the procedure or my 'condition.' So, not only were they wrong on my prescription, slipshod in their record keeping, lax in their privacy practices, and misinforming me about the procedure they were recommending I have, Dr. Limberg is also negligent of his patients. I was at my appointment for over an hour and a half, and of that time, I saw Dr. Limberg for 4-6 minutes! He never addressed my condition or answered any questions. He looked in my dilated eyes, dictated some note to his assistant, who typed them into a computer, made a brief comment to me about doing something about my vision, and left the room.

Dr. Limberg does not do his own work, and the staff he has doing his work are not doing it correctly. This is cause for concern to my husband and I, because other patients who trust Dr. Limberg, as we have done for the past 15 years as his patients, might just go along with his and his staff's recommendations, and in my case, the diagnosis was incorrect and the dye study an unnecessary procedure. On top of all of this, we did some checking on our own, and found that Dr. Lowe does not have the best reputation as an retinal specialist, and this further alarmed us, as he was being recommended to us by Dr. Limberg and his staff.

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