ilumin

I had been a patient of Dr. Parson’s at Ilumin for about 20 years. I decided to have her do my cataract surgery. Bad idea! She told me I would be sedated for the procedure, and the Ilumin surgery coordinator assured me that all her cataract patients were sedated. Turned out I went through the procedure at Methodist Hospital with no sedation: Very unpleasant: bright, laser-​like light beam into my dilated eye; I could feel Dr. Parson’s surgical motions, her pushing on the eyeball, and see the penetration and movement of surgical blades into my eye. She repeatedly admonished me to stop twitching my eye, even though I could not control such movement. At the post-​op appointment, Dr. Parson said that two others she operated on the same day had complained about no sedation. I asked if she shouldn’t have checked for sedation before starting surgery, and she said that wasn’t her responsibility; the anesthesiologist was also a doctor, and sedating was his job, according to her. I suffered significant cornea swelling and macular edema after the surgery. In switching to another ophthalmological practice to treat those conditions, the Ilumin staff were less than cordial in forwarding my medical records.