Alan Ross, OD

We’ve been patients of Dr Ross’s for many years and love him and his staff so much we even travel from Nyc to continue seeing him.

I’ve never gotten a more thorough eye exam — and I’ve been to 2 opthamologists, and 2 other ODs but keep going back to Alan. Even though we share a last name, we are 100% in no way related, however I’ve been going to him for so many years, he feels like family. I drive 30 minutes to get there because of the experience.

I went in to get my eyes checked to get new glasses and after the refraction exam, he gave me a computerized test that analyzed my eyes without asking me if I wanted the test. He then said that my optic nerve looked strange using this machine, and asked me to return the next week so that he could further analyze my optic nerve using some newfangled equipment, which was on loan to another doctor at the moment. So, I returned and the technician (his son-​in-​law), conducted the computerized test. Ross then said that my optic nerve still looked swollen and advised me to return in a few months because it was likely that the swelling was caused by some medications that I was taking. So, I asked him to give me a printout of what he saw in his computerized machine and write down what he thought the problem was — he wrote «papillodema» with 3 question marks at the end. Papillodema as I discovered on the internet, is swelling in the brain, indicating a very serious illness (MS or a brain tumor)!!! I then brought this to a real MD who asked me if my pupils had been dilated (which they hadn’t), so he did so. The dialation indicated that my optic nerve was healthy and pink and not swollen. I showed him the printout that I received from Dr. Ross and he just said,“what am I supposed to do with this?”
So, be very wary of this so-​called Doctor. He evidently bought some very expensive machinery which he is trying to pay-​off at the expense of unnecessarily alarming his patients. Furthermore, he should have just dialated my pupils himself, instead of scaring me.