Karlin J David MD

The billing department is terrible! STAY AWAY FROM this practice! FARIBNA YAGHOOBIAN and the rest of the staff is rude and discourteous and should not be working with customers!

i received a call today as they had to change my appointment. the thing is i never made an appointment with them. i never heard of them, the girl on the phone was rude and unhelpful. she could not give me any info on who made the appointment and seemed not to care. thing is if she had been pleasant i might have made an appointment as it has been years since my eyes have been checked, after reading the other reviews i will not be going to this doctor!

Do not, I repeat do not go to this Doctor. They do not know how to bill a diabetic preventive exam. They sent us to collection because they billed the insurance company incorrectly. They used a diabetes diagnosis when it should have been a diabetic well exam. Please save yourself the mental anguish. We have tried numerous times to get them to change the billing and they don’t. We have called the patient liaisons, and they said there is nothing we can do. Don’t let this office take your money like they took ours.

I have been a patient of Dr Karlin’s for almost 20 years and can’t say enough great things about him. He is a wonderful caring doctor and my whole family goes to him. He did surgery on my son and even fixed a botch surgery that was done by another doctor for my sister-​in-​law. I have since recommended him to coworkers and they all love him. He is the one doctor that I would be proud to recommend to anyone that wants the best care possible.

We had a female Dr. treating my mom at first. She was scatterbrained, texting, and just appeared to be having a bad day. Dr. Karlin came in and saved the day. He’s patient and just an overall nice man.
The 3 stars is for his incompetent staff. The visit was back in March. Flash forward to October we receive an invoice for the first time for $ 12 outstanding. I call in, give Gilda my phone number and ask her to fax the receipt so I could be done with this. Next day I notice the charge hit my credit card, no receipt. Called in and was transferred to a very rude Fariba who informed me they chose to ignore my fax request and mail it out instead. Will not be returning no matter how good the Dr is. To be fair just received a message from Gilda letting me know she would fax the receipt over. Still not pleased with lack of customer service.

If I could give this place no stars I would! My boyfriend had an appointment today at 11:00 a. m and it was the worst experience. He went in today for an eye exam to get new contacts which he really needs. The ladies at the front desk were nice and answered all questions. The Dr was a different story. When she started the eye exam she was rude the whole time. When she started switching the lens she said is this better he said ‘no’ how about this one he said ‘no’ again and than she said well than that’s the best it can get. Really? Than he said nicely ‘what is the $ 180 that I’m spending for?’ She than said ‘if you don’t want to be here you can leave. I’m too tired anyways.’ He wasn’t going to stay after that. So unprofessional of her. Dr’s are here to help people and she was ‘too tired’! My boyfriend is currently looking for a Dr to go to now for his contacts that he really needs. I hope you’re reading this Dr. That was not nice of you. Get a good night sleep so you don’t take you’re personal problems on your clients.

I have been Dr. Karlin’s patient for over 30 years. He is an exceptional doctor and person. I cannot write enough great things about him. I just went through a round of cataract surgery with him and everything went completely perfect. I would never, ever see another eye doctor — no pun intended!!!

I was referred to Dr. Karlin from the medical team across the street in the ER after experiencing vision loss over the weekend. I didn’t know what to expect, but when I saw the doctor, I was extremely satisfied. He quickly diagnosed my condition, which was misdiagnosed by my primary care physician, and gave me all the information I needed (plus medication of course). It was a great experience all around. Dr. Karlin will be my primary eye doctor from now on.

It is a sad truism in today’s society that many doctors care more about their Saturday and their money than their patient’s health. This seems to be the case with the incredibly abrasive and dismissive Dr. Karlin.
After a trip to the emergency room necessitated an immediate weekend follow up with an opthamologist, and my husband was referred to Dr. Karlin, the ‘good’ doctor essentially disputed our need for an appt. He questioned the care of the ER physician and told us they were just covering their ass by suggesting a follow up.
This, having not ever seen the patient in question or even his chart!
Covering his ass is also exactly what he did when he refused to put any of this is writing and waived us off. Oh, well, he did say we could ‘pay him money’ by visiting him in the ER again if we really wanted to.
Hippocrates would be shamed.