Dr. Mohammad Al-Khudari, MD

I had a chilling experience with Dr. Mohammad Al-Khudari and strongly urge others to reconsider your option to receive surgery here. Do not take your safety for granted. The short version: I was refused service here because Dr. Al-Khudari was intimidated by my pre-op questions. Because I asked about the percentage rate of clients who ended up with side-effects, he informed me that I would regret receiving the operation, even though I had been approved as an excellent candidate (ostensibly because he is not confidant enough in his ability or success rate to discuss those numbers honestly or to perform surgery on someone who cares to ask). The long version: I was approved as an excellent candidate by my optometrist. Then, I was approved as an excellent candidate by Dr. Pappas at Oakbrook LASIK who did my intake testing. I was approved by the clinic for surgery and scheduled my operation date. The Surgical Manager, Chelsea, told me during my consultation to email her with any questions,… so a few days later I did that. She responded only to say she would have someone else answer my questions. That's the last I heard from their office. I emailed twice more and called twice over the following 3 weeks, trying to get a response to my questions; no one responded. On the day of my appointment, Dr. Pappas checked my prescription and again said I was all good to go ahead with surgery as planned. Finally, I met my surgeon, Dr. Al-Khudari. He arrived and began rapid-firing questions at me, barely allowing me time to respond before interrupting with his next question (anachronistically, he asked my name about half-way through the interview). When his questions were done, I mentioned I had some questions of my own. It seems he was already aware of my questions because before I could ask them, he began to steer the conversation down a strange course. He told me he did not recommend this operation for me and repeated several times the phrase, "you'll regret it". He concocted a flimsy, non-sequitur excuse about my eyesight naturally improving on its own as I age enough that I will be able to read without glasses in four years (something I've never heard from an optometrist in my life) and that receiving this operation would stop the chances of that natural improvement and that I would regret it. --If this part of the story seems confusing or unlikely to you, it's because it was both confusing and unlikely, though true.-- He mumbled something in passing about my concern about side-effects, tipping me off that he had been aware of my questions. He stone-walled further conversation, clearly unwilling to face an honest discussion with me. I left. Honestly, I was in minor shock afterwards, realizing that even in context of modern medicine, where patients should be fully empowered to collect all pertinent information regarding their care, there are doctors who still believe themselves to be so far above reproach that they can not deign to field any sort of questioning of their complete infallibility. That type of arrogance in a surgeon is dangerous. I feel I dodged a bullet and I encourage everyone considering entrusting the fate of your precious eyesight to any surgeon (and especially this one) to ASK QUESTIONS and take nothing for granted. You are responsible for your own best care. If you're wondering what these offending questions are that I asked, here they are, exactly from my email to Chelsea: 1. Would you please provide the success rate for this specific Oakbrook location and my doctor, Dr. Mohammad Al-Khudari? What percentage of his patients achieve 20/20 vision or better? 2. Would you please provide the rate of complications and side effects for this specific location and doctor? What percentage of your/his patients have had serious long-term complications? (I consider serious complications to be; loss of vision, loss of best corrected vision, infection, or malfunctioning of the machine during the procedure.) What percentage of your/

Brought my elderly father here for appointment. Was rushed, Doctor was not patient and didn’t explain why my father couldn’t see well. We went somewhere else and felt much better. Make sure to get a second opinion if he says you need surgery.

I had scheduled an appointment with Dr. Khudari for an infection in my eye. After continousely visiting him for weeks and with all of the eye drops he has prescribed for me the matter got worse. He clearly didn't know what kind of infection I had. So I was referred to a much more experienced doctor that told me the prescription that khudari was giving me was what was keeping my eye infected and even got the matter worse to the point where I needed surgery because the infection in my eye

Completely careless

What a great physician, I had my cataract taken out and now can see great.