Dr. Ashleigh Laurin Levison

After I explained my concerns with steroid injections into my eye, and that since there was no predicted outcome ( better or worse ) . that this seemed like an experiment to me. So I refused this particular treatment. She then lost total interest in my case, as if the money for the injections was all she was interested in. Very cold and distant.

Dr Levison is clearly a highly intelligent and well educated doctor. However, her lack of empathy and nonchalant attitude during my evaluation visit was disconcerting. Once I decided to move forward with a procedure, she was done with me and no longer acknowledged my presence in the room, and instead only spoke with the nurse who was also present. I do not feel that I was given a chance to ask any follow up questions and as a result I feel very unprepared. In one regard I am comforted to have such a learned doctor helping me, but in the other hand I am very put off by the poor bed side manner. Treating your patient with empathy should be a basic courtesy a doctor gives their patient. We don't have to be best friends, but I shouldn't leave feeling unprepared for a surgery, no matter how minor or noninvasive it is. I was given zero information about down time or what to expect afterwards, which seems incredibly strange to me. The CRA practice website also does not contain any of this… information either. I also don't understand how if the condition she was evaluating for was "not that serious" and that I could put off the procedure until it worsened, why once I decided to move forward with the procedure anyway that I needed to have it done within the next 1-3 weeks. This seems contradictory.

Quite competent, however she immediately made it quite clear there would be no interruption with patient input or comment. She proceeded with assessment and prognosis at rapid-fire speed! (Good thing I am from the NYC area and can understand fast talking, but not the abbreviations used.) This doctor needs to learn about patient-doctor relationship. I will not subject myself to her treatment ever again!

Gave me an incomplete clinical assesment. Gave incorrect insurance coverage information resulting in a huge problem. As doctor on call refused to come to Emergency Room. Required me to drive across town to her office.