Robert Peabody Jr, MD

Dr. Peabody very RUDE…
I waited in the office for 45 min not even a hello. I walked out…

Total Nightmare! Don’t go to Dr. Peabody!!! I had to visit his office «4» times. He’s slightly cordial and always seem preoccupied, like he is in a hurry. His techs do the bulk of the exam, he does very minimal (5 min. or less). This is why I had to endure this traumatic experience. If he would do the total EXAM himself, I wouldn’t be writing this review. Because of his laziness and lack of interest, my prescription was screwed up twice, and to top it off his eyeglass techs ordered the wrong lenses, the new lenses (per Peabody’s second exam) was still wrong, and TODAY I went to pick up my glasses and the LAB screwed up and put in an prism??? I have to wait another 2 – 4 weeks for a correction to the lenses. It will be almost 2.5 months since my initial visit. Seriously? Incompetency from the Doctor, Tech, and the Lab. I filed a FORMAL COMPLAINT WITH
They immediately got in communication with the Doctor’s office, eyeglass tech, and Lab. VSP put a rush this 4^th time around… I’m not holding my breath.

I saw Dr. Peabody in April 2012. I had an extremley bad eye infection, & after seeing 2 other docs, I was referred to him. He was very nice, knew exactly what was wrong & prescribed me some meds, they were just what I needed! However, his front desk staff was AWFUL. The most unfriendly unprofessional 2 women ever! They talked about the patients in front of us like we weren’t there, it’s a small room mind you. One looked so miserable and had a nasty attitude. They got into a small arguement while I was there too. I almost left because of them. Idk how or why they have a job but they need to be replaced.

He was rude, his office staff actually got into an argument in front of me, and they are billing me for an extra exam that I didn’t have. To top it off, the prescription that he wrote me was wrong, wrong wrong. I went to another eye doctor weeks later and he fixed me up with the right prescription. Hundreds of dollars wasted on bad treatment.

Dr. Peabody Jr. is an excellent eye Dr. I have been going to him for the past 6 or 7 years. I always have a pleasant experience. Office staff is professional and courteous. Just went for my most recent eye exam with Dr. Peabody Jr. this past week. He took time explaining things to me and was very friendly as usual. He doesn’t rush and is patient. I would recommend him for sure! :)

Update one year later: Glad I dropped Dr. Peabody… my hunch was right, something was NOT right. For an entire year I worried about cataracts. Dr. Peabody diagnosed them two consecutive years, 2009 and 2010.
That’s not why I dropped him… attitude was the cause, and after being with his clinic for 10+ years.
I selected a new ophthalmologist for my exam 2011, at Mercy Medical, where all my other docs are located. I do NOT have cataracts. My new doctor examined me twice when I told him about Peabody. I haven’t a clue why Peabody was so intent on diagnosing incorrectly. If I had continued to see him would he have insisted on surgery? Scary thought.

I’ve been going here for 11 years or so for eyeglass lens prescriptions and contacts, basic exams only.
The front end staff is nice, Paul the nurse (?, he’s the one that does the basic vision exam at the beginning and puts in the dilation solutions) is a nice guy, and I’ve never had any problem with Dr Peabody Jr’s attitude or anything. He’s not one to small talk but my visits have never been awkward or unpleasant. I feel he takes the time to really dial in your prescription. I like that this office offers/​recommends gas permeable contacts.
Just don’t go to the glasses store next door — priiicey. They have a good selection, but the costs of their frames alone turns me off and on to Costco/​Lenscrafters.

Gah, what can I tell you about this «doctor»?
I have a long term condition that had developed into a situation where my cornea was falling apart. This is an extremely painful thing, and not something you can reverse through medication. What you need is a cornea transplant.
Dr Peabody Jr had absolutely no compassion for the way that this felt, and he didn’t refer me to a cornea specialist at all. What he recommended was that a ‘band-​aid’ contact lens be put in place. He stated that he has a patient who had this contact lens in for years and that kept their cornea from falling apart.
The contact lens fell out twice, and he just put another one in and sent me on my way. Eventually, the contact lens got stuck to my eyeball on a Saturday and I ended up seeing a specialist quite by chance. She had me in surgery and receiving a cornea transplant in under three weeks. That’s the only real way to deal with the issue I was having, and if he didn’t know that, he should have sent me to the specialist right away, rather than trying some kind of jury-​rigged crackpot medicine for TWO MONTHS and leaving me in pain.
Needless to say, I won’t be going back to him.
PS the only good thing I have to say about him is that he strongly resembles Stephen Colbert and this lead to endless «Dr Colbert» jokes with my husband.

Absolutely horrendous experience here; I would give it zero stars if I could. My spouse and I both came in as new patients for a checkup. Dr. Peabody came into the room and just started right in – no introduction, no hello, nothing. I started a little small talk because it was uncomfortable, and it came out that I work in the legal field; I made a joke about how the doctor shouldn’t worry because I don’t deal with medical malpractice. Big mistake.
He glared at me, then didn’t say another word until the exam was over, even if I tried to ask him a question. When he was finished with me, he looked at my spouse, who had been sitting in one of the three empty chairs in the exam room while I was getting my eyes checked, and said, «I’m going to do something a little unconventional now.» He brought in the next patient (no relation to us), let that guy sit in one of the empty chairs, and led me down the hall to some extra waiting room. (Remember that there was an empty seat for me in the exam room.) It was dark, and he led me to a seat, then left without turning on the lights. My spouse had his exam with the random guy sitting there watching. The only explanation I can think of for this bizarre behavior is that Dr. Peabody didn’t want someone even remotely connected with the law to watch him work. Classy.
A little while later, I heard voices that sounded familiar, so I wandered out of my punishment den to find Dr. Peabody in the «real» waiting area with my spouse, explaining MY exam and what I would need to do with MY prescription. I walked over to join the conversation, and Dr. Peabody literally acted as if I didn’t exist. You’ve got to be kidding me.
But wait, it gets better! I wear glasses and contacts, and our insurance covers both, so I figured I might as well get new pairs. I filled out all the paperwork, answered all the receptionists’ questions, got my prescription in hand and went on my way. (It was for glasses; they supposedly take care of the contacts right there, so I would just have to come back and pick them up in a week.) I picked out a sharp new pair of specs at my favorite local eyeglasses shop, then waited.
After a few days, I went to pick up my new glasses, put them on, and felt like I was looking around while underwater. The proprietor told me that it might take a day or two to get used to a new prescription, but after three days of almost being seasick whenever I put on my new glasses, I checked the prescription against my last one (I hadn’t changed), only to discover that it was completely different. I went back to the eyeglasses store and the guy was dumbfounded that a doctor could write something THAT far off. He fixed my glasses stat (and recently confided that he has never had to fix so many botched-​prescription orders as he has with Dr. Peabody’s patients).
Not so much luck with the contacts. I called Dr. Peabody’s after two weeks to find out what was up, and the receptionist had no idea who I was; there was zero information about me in the computer system. I went BACK in, filled out all the same paperwork, answered all the same questions, and then she took me to the lab to pick up my contacts. Surprise: they weren’t there.
The nurse in charge of the contacts looked all over the place, but there were none there. She took my information and assured me that I could pick up a new pair in another week, and to just stop back in.
A week later, that’s what I did. I felt like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day: once again, nobody had any clue who I was, and there was no information in the computer verifying that I had ever been in before. The SAME nurse from a week earlier acted like she had never met me before, and seemed very put off that I would come in out of the blue demanding a new pair of contacts on the spot. How dare I?
ANOTHER week later, they found my contacts… they were listed under a completely different last name — different letters, a different number of syllables, the works. I have no idea how they found them, unless they used the process of elimination when they noticed that pair had been sitting unclaimed on the shelf for a month.
The contacts, thank goodness, were the correct prescription. Amazing!
A few months later, we were filling out our yearly forms. When we called the office to get a confirmation receipt for those contacts — wait for it – they had no idea what we were talking about and had no record that I had ever been in the office. Shockingly, however, they were able to send me a reminder card this year about my checkup. Um, I think I’d rather go blind than ever go back to Dr. Peabody’s office, thankyouverymuch. (In fact, that would probably happen sooner than later if I DID go back.)
For the record, I recently went to Griffin & Reed Eyecare and had a great experience… plus they have a giant plasma in the waiting room, so whoever has to wait & drive your freaky-​dilated-​eye self home will be happy too.