Anthony S Ekong

I went in a little anxious, but everyone was so nice, particularly Dr. Ekong, and I left feeling very relieved. Thank you!

Anthony Ekong treated my right eye for cystoid macular edema for over a year. A month ago he performed laser surgery on my eye after many unsuccessful attempts to check the fluid expansion in my retina through injections. Immediately following the laser surgery, the blurry spot that had been to the right-of-center shifted to dead-center. When I explained that the blurry spot had moved, he insisted that the “objective data” suggested otherwise, and that it was impossible for the spot to have moved. I’m all for objective data, but as I insisted that my eye was in fact blurry in the exact center following the procedure, causing me to be unable to read out of that eye at all, Dr. Ekong wouldn’t hear of it. The data on the screen, he insisted, the data I couldn’t see out of my right eye because of the blurry spot, proved without a doubt that what I was saying was false. For thirty minutes or more I went back and forth with him. When I asked about the coincidence of the shift in the blurry spot corresponding to the day, the exact day, of the surgery, he didn’t have an answer, except to say that it couldn’t have caused it, and that there was now a “floater” in my vitreous fluid, which he had failed to observe in the 12+ months prior to this exact visit. Was this the cause of the blurry spot in my vision? Had the laser surgery caused the floater? He didn’t know, but he seemed incredulous that I would even ask. He went on, the “objective data” still proved that without a doubt the blurry spot was in my imagination. I trusted Dr. Ekong for a year with the care of my eye. For the most part it seemed as if he cared. I got a few inklings of this tone-deaf and superior attitude towards my actual experience versus his “objective data” along the way, but I never thought he would tell me to my face that I was flat-out mistaken or simply lying about something I couldn't possibly be wrong about. This is what he did, and the visit ended with me walking out of his office with nary a word from him of goodbye. The feeling was mutual, and I will never visit his office again.

Anthony Ekong treated my right eye for cystoid macular edema for over a year. A month ago he performed laser surgery on my eye after many unsuccessful attempts to check the fluid expansion in my retina through injections. Immediately following the laser surgery, the blurry spot that had been to the right-of-center shifted to dead-center. When I explained that the blurry spot had moved, he insisted that the “objective data” suggested otherwise, and that it was impossible for the spot to have moved. I’m all for objective data, but as I insisted that my eye was in fact blurry in the exact center following the procedure, causing me to be unable to read out of that eye at all, Dr. Ekong wouldn’t hear of it. The data on the screen, he insisted, the data I couldn’t see out of my right eye because of the blurry spot, proved without a doubt that what I was saying was false. Who was I going to believe after all, the data or my lying eye? Very disappointed.