Robert J Fucigna, MD

WHAT A JOKE THIS DOCTOR IS, VERY UNPROFESSIONAL TO BOOT!
First, let me say this doctor is the biggest, unprofessional joke I have ever had the displeasure to meet! He is more interested in looking in the mirror at himself, flying through his parking lot with his fast suped-​up car, and flirting with his staff to ever care about his patients! I would give him a 0 if I could!
I met him at the ER after a crazy accident where I was stabbed in the eye by a flying pen at a food store. It was a freak accident where the store tied multiple rubber bands to a pen for people to sign things at the counter with. I was waiting in line and the cart ahead of me got tangled up in it, started to walk off and then the pen released with 10 feet to fly through the air and hit me in the corner of my eye.
The store offered to call an ambulance. I declined and made my way to the ER. This idiot doctor was on call and called because it was after 9pm (normal busn hrs). He was on call and 3.5 hrs late arriving to his page. After multiple apologies from the staff in the ER, he strolls in, annoyed, never asking me or the staff questions, just putting his equipment on my eye and getting annoyed I couldn’t open the eye more for him to see into it. Never asking what happened, I responded there was an accident, please handle the eye carefully. He rolled his eyes!
Next, he said his finding were inconclusive and I needed to come to his office the next day. I guess I was holding him up from his plans or something. When he left, I asked the nursing staff for another doctor and they didn’t have one so I went to the appoint because I just relocated to the area and didn’t know anyone else. That was DUMB!
He was so condescending to me… stating, «come on… if you try you can open it and see something right»! I left telling him he was an idiot and incompetent. I immediately went online and found a specialist at Yale. The eye was like a golf ball and I was afraid there was damage. So… off I went to Yale.
The new doctor I found was very thorough. He put a compress on the eye to diminish the swelling then gently looked in. My iris had minimal damage and thank God the rest looked okay aside for blood found inside the eyeball. That impaired the vision but the doctor was confident it would return… which it did 2 wks later. I thought this was done and behind me but I was sadly wrong!
I called the Yale doctor to get my medical records to file. When I got all my medical records, I saw that Dr. Fucigna put in his notes to the new doctor that I was being a difficult patient and was probably just trying to get on disability. WHAT?!@#$
Why is he trying to discredit me… how about just doing your job and leaving the theatrics to Broadway doc!
I called the new doctor in Yale… mortified at what he must have thought of me and wanted to assure him that wasn’t the case. When I spoke with him, he said no worries, that he actually laughed when he saw that and didn’t at all take it seriously. What a relief!
In the end… my eye is well and that’s what counts. I didn’t get any money for medical bills or go on disability for it. Sorry Dr. Fucigna… you called this very wrong!!! I am grateful, however, I get to warn any other patients even thinking about using this guy to rethink that strategy. Stay away people… he’s creepy, inconsiderate and a liar to boot. And as far as medical ability… he couldn’t even get the head lamp on.
Patient beware!