Marie Di Nome, MD

Although she is a technically competent physician, she also comes across as utterly lacking in compassion and in an ability to communicate effectively with patients. While she appears to be introverted, patients need to have a physician not only with good technical skills, but with at least equally good communication skills. Moreover, she seems to have already decided what she will talk about before a patient is even in the room with her, and she seems either unwilling or incapable of deviating from her predetermined course of conversation. As such, she comes across as not forthcoming with information and seeming to hide behind semantics when asked a direct question, such as what is the diagnosis - instead describing something like a diagnosis but using a more technical, arcane and nuanced descriptive term. Hey, if you don't know exactly what has occurred, say so: have enough confidence your patients to believe they are intelligent enough to know that sometimes doctors and Medicine… just can't give a definitive answer. She also can be snide or perhaps arrogant, reminding a patient who continues to be scared and/or concerned about one or more issues, that she'd already addressed that given issue, which in this case was almost six weeks earlier. Perhaps she should have used 100 percent of her time for research and not chosen patient care because, for me, dealing with her is such an uphill battle that I may choose to deal with another ophthamologist less credentialed than she but far more gracious and willing to answer questions. Doing so may ultimately be far more helpful than dealing with this recommended specialist from the Mayo Clinic, as prestigious as that organization is, who appears to resent being questioned and is condescending toward her patients.

For $404.00 she could not help me. (I had been having severe twitching of my eyelids for over 2 years). She spent roughly 3 minutes with me!

Had an 8 am appt. Had to wait for a guy from Lafayette to take a 10 second photo. Did not get the photo taken until 11:30. He was rude and expected my 7 year old Down's Syndrome child to kneel on a spinning rolling stool and cooperate to take a picture. He was arrogant and said, " I got the picture, but it is not that good". "But I got what I need, it's good enough". This is the second time that the same exact thing happened to us. The first time with me and the second time with my mom. Almost verbatim. He was in a small cramped room with other equipment around and would not even attempt to get a chair for him. I had to go in the hall to get a non rolling chair. At another prior appt (today makes the fourth and last ever visit to this facility), I asked the nurse or assistant why does it take so long to get into the actual appt. She replied, " You know how it is at a facility that no one has insurance". Really! Sorry, but I do have insurance and so what if they don't… have insurance. Why do they need to be treated different? The doctor might be smart, but the staff is horrible and The company who services the photos should fire the man who takes the pictures. I would never recommend this place to anyone.

Dr. Acierno saved my daughter's vision almost 4 years ago. She operated on her eye in an emergency situation and has been following up with her ever since. She is very thorough and an excellent doctor. Her students are lucky to have her.

Dr. Acierno is very knowledgeable and thorough. She spends a lot of time with her patients and appears to be a direct and straight-forward individual, which may come across as lacking compassion. I feel that she's very busy and wants to make sure she is providing a thorough exam. My complaints are, there was no follow up, confirmed diagnosis or proposed treatment for my symptoms. One more . . . she's not a fan of returning phone calls. I won't critique the waiting time, it just could have been a bad day. Overall, I think she's a good doctor.

Dr. Marie Acierno's is very overbooked with many consults, so basically she see's you and then you are referred back to your original eye doctor. She takes her time and is very careful, but patients want to keep following the same Eye doctor especially if it is a chronic eye problem. I heard from some friends that she is also the head of the residency program and she is very involved at the Hospital and she is out of town so much.I would not invest anytime with her, since she is not around much.

It did take a while to get an appointment - and that was a bit frustrating. Once in the office she spent an enormous amount of time - first with me, and then my family (explaining my diagnosis). She did the one thing that a bunch of other doctors couldn't do - tell me what was wrong. I am disappointed that I can not continue my care with Dr Acierno - it seems she only gives consultations and then care is transferred back.

It seems to all of us, she is too darn busy and from what you all hear she is teachin trainees that will be docters and trying to see all of her patients and goin to so many hospital meetins and medical meetins of some kind, she needs to slow down because when you are too busy and don't slow down, things happen and they are not good.

A bit of trouble getting an appointment, but well worth it!

Nice eye doctor.