Dr. Hui Bae Harold Lee, MD

My husband and I were both his patient. Office waiting time to see him are always least 1 and 1/2 hr. Least an hr wait in waiting area then another 30 minutes in the exam rm. Other dr offices, if we wait more than 30 min then dr tells us he is sorry for our wait. This dr has to know our time is valuable as his time. I went to see him for possible infusion treatment called Tepezza for my thyroid eye dz. He even didn’t bother to consider it for me, but just saying it is not available due to covid (supposedly the company was making covid vaccine bottles), but actually What I needed was a surgery. But, the medicine, Tepezza was doing a TV commercial during that time plus soon after, it was available. I went to see another ophthalmologist who agreed that I am a right candidate for Tepezza treatment. Wouldn’t you want to try medicine first before a surgery if you were in my situation? But he being a surgeon, all he wanted to do on my eyes was a surgery, nothing but the… surgery. My husband just had a eyed lids surgery from him. Right before the surgery, in the prep room, we asked him if he can perform the surgery from the beginning to the end all by himself, not finishing by assistant (fellow). We asked him that because finishing of eye lid surgery is very important since it would determine crease of eyes and it is involving a face being an eye surgery. I wouldn’t care if it was another body part. But, he said “If I do that, I will be here until 10 o’clock, and if that is what you want then you came to the wrong doctor!”. If I was my husband, then probably I pulled out my IV and left the prep room. My husband also being a doctor, and me being a pharmacist, I don’t think it was a unreasonable request plus his ex partner (who retired), he was gladly did it for our son’s surgery more than 10 years ago. This doctor could have explained to us nicely and professionally if it wasn’t possible nor he didn’t want to do as we requested. The bottom line is that he is interested more on his practice revenue than taking care of patients because it seems as his office double/triple book all his patients on one day. Also, I have an impression that he over books his surgeries which explains his behavior on our surgery day. Don’t even expect to see him right after surgery in recovery rm, all you are going to get is a phone call from him to the guardian right after surgery. We were used to seeing a dr coming to recovery rm to explain everything even after a little procedure, so we were disappointed again. I wouldn’t recommend him unless the eye surgery you are going to have is only can be performed by him due to his specialty, but there are other eye surgeons who specializes same area out there.