Dr. Richard Stewart Kalski, MD

The office staff is very professional and polite. Doctor Kalski was very knowledgeable and took the time to discuss my stye symptoms and possible solution. He was very thorough.

The office staff is pleasant and professional. I didn’t have to wait very long to be seen. The doctor was very knowledgeable and was very pleasant.

Tuve la oportunidad de asistir con la cliente que cuido a la consulta de Dr. Kalski es un ser humano súper sencillo, humilde de corazón y muy profesional, nos ayudó muchísimo y orientó en su condición de ojos; sin dejar a un lado la amabilidad de su staff uñas chicas bien agradables...

The best!, I was very upset and depress due to all doctors that I had seen were telling me nothing is wrong, one even suggest that I may have a brain tumor, when finally got to Dr Kalski he not only told me that I did not have a brain tumor but a very treatable condition: cataracts, he did my surgery and I felt he saved my life, I was able to see clearly again! even the colors were brighter, excellent doctor and his staff is always nice and ready to help, Doctor Kalski call you the day before your surgery to ask you how are you and to assured you he is ready and that everything is going to be ok, and that is something you do not see very often in a doctor. I highly recommend this doctor.

Thanks to Dr. Kalski, I went through over a year of being legally blind because of his mistakes. Dr. Kalski performed cataract surgery on one of my eyes several years ago. I was scheduled for an early morning procedure at an outpatient facility, where he does this type of surgery in the morning one day a week (at least at the time of my procedure). After waiting for several hours in the waiting area past my scheduled time, I was taken back for pre-op prep. As I was being prepped, the nurse said that he was running late that morning because of a complication with an earlier surgery. I then asked how many he had done that morning, and was told that I was #18!!! Had I not been partially sedated at that time, I would have run. At that time, Dr. Kalski came in and, shortly after beginning the procedure exclaimed "##&X&!- the lens capsule ruptured!" At that point, I was "put out" and really not aware of anything until the following day when I woke up and, literally, could not see… my own hand in front of my face. I was informed by my family that there had been complications and I was to call my ophthalmologist, who Dr. Kalski was doing the cataract surgeries for. I was scheduled the next day to see the ophthalmologist, who explained that the lens capsule had been ruptured during the procedure, and pieces of the capsule had then fallen into the vitreous inside the eye, causing irritation to the cornea. On that particular day, when the tech held up fingers in front of me and said "how many", I couldn't even see her hand, much less individual fingers. After several weeks of weekly visits to the ophthalmologist, I still was only able to see haze with thousands of black floaters swirling inside the eye, and was told with each visit that the cornea was so swollen that they were unable to get a good view of the retina. I was sent to a retina specialist, who followed me for another several weeks, and after little to no improvement, I was scheduled for a vitrectomy (to remove the jelly-like vitreous inside the eye along with the floating pieces of the lens capsule. That procedure did give me some improvement almost immediately, but my vision was still extremely hazy, almost like I was in very dense fog. I also noticed that when going from brightly lit areas to darker ones (and vice versa), it was as though the entire visual field was shaking. When I went for my followup appointment with the retina specialist, he informed me that while doing the vitrectomy he discovered that Dr. Kalski had not only ruptured the lens capsule, but in placing the implant, had somehow managed to get a fragment of the lens capsule OVER THE FRONT OF THE IMPLANT. I was then sent to Bascom Palmer, both for evaluation of the lens capsule in front of the implant situation, but also for the corneal scarring that had been the result of several months of swelling and inflammation caused by the pieces of the capsule in the vitreous. I was treated at Bascom Palmer for about six months before they would even attempt to correct the cataract in my other eye because of the poor vision in the eye that Dr. Kalski had operated on. After the doctor at Bascom Palmer was satisfied that the vision in my right eye was essentially as good as it was going to get, I was scheduled for surgery on the other eye. Now is where the "kicker" really comes in! When the measurements were done prior to the surgery, it was found that I have unusually shallow eyes, which probably explains why this all happened in the first place! If Dr. Kalski, in an obvious attempt to do as many surgeries as possible in a morning, had done 18 procedures prior to mine, I question whether he actually looked at the measurements that had been done prior to that surgery before attempting the procedure, or if he just relied on his experience and "expertise". I additionally question this because when I finally obtained my records from the ophthalmologist, written in large letters on it was "CAUTION- UNUSUAL EYE". Now, thanks to the doctors at Bascom Palmer, I do have sufficient vision in my left eye (not the one that Kalski did), so as to be able to function pretty well. However, I have not been able to drive at night since then. I should add here that I was only 53 years old when Dr. Kalski did that surgery. In short, what this man did to me has and will continue to affect my entire life and the quality thereof. If I could caution anyone concerning him, my advise would be to run- not walk- to the nearest exit and search out a doctor who limits the number of surgeries he attempts in any given day so that they can given the appropriate care and attention to your eye. I can tell you firsthand, there is no going back once this kind of damage has been done!

Pleasant and professional staff. Exceptional service.

Great visit! Ok wait time, but extremely efficient once the appointment started.

Dr. Kalski and his staff were awesome! I was treated well by everyone. Dr. Kalski was very professional, knowledgeable, and nice. I highly recommend him.

great doctor, i would recommend him to anyone i know.

Had a chalazion removed on three different occasions. Fast. Clean. Knowledgeable.