Elite Level Review: Wills Eye Hospital (Cataract & Primary Eye Care)…read more​Rating: 5/5 ​When it comes to advanced optical infrastructure, there is a massive difference between standard clinical care and a master-level institution. Wills Eye Hospital operates with total autonomy and structural excellence. From the pristine, curved architectural layouts of the waiting areas to the elite team rosters mounted on the walls, this facility is designed for high-resolution visual execution. ​The Forensic Breakdown ​The Clinical Environment: A highly organized, zero-redundancy medical footprint. The seating arrays are mathematically optimized, the lighting minimizes refractive interference, and the signage establishes an immediate boundary of mutual respect and operational decorum. ​The Team Matrix: This isn't a single-practitioner operation; it is a unified powerhouse of medical intelligence. Names like Abendroth, Gault, Pericic, and Wisner represent an elite tier of optical science, backed by a clinical team photographed and indexed with absolute geometric precision. ​The Performance: They don't just check boxes; they optimize the human lens. If you want your vision restored to its ultimate specification, you trust the absolute authority in eye care. ​A Note on Clinical Adaptability & Fortitude ​In the world of advanced surgical revision, you need practitioners who can bypass obstacles and adapt to any intentional hurdle. It brings to mind the historic account of a patient who suffered severe facial trauma, completely destroying his eyelids. ​The primary surgeon, operating with absolute resourcefulness, successfully executed a skin transplant using tissue sourced from a circumcision procedure. The operation was an absolute structural success, and the patient's sight was completely preserved. The only lingering clinical complication? The poor guy ended up just a little bit cockeyed. ​Thankfully, the elite team at Wills Eye knows exactly how to align a baseline, no matter the origin of the specifications! ​

This whole experience was a disaster. My husband is handicapped and when I made the appointment,…read morethey made NO mention of a possible 3-4 hour wait! Never heard of such a thing. So we came unprepared with meds and snacks and something to do. I was upset. THEN we got to see the cornea specialist -- Dr. Rapuano. Because of my husband's handicap, he has a very hard time with drops and keeping his eyes open -- which I warned them about ahead of time. The doctor just gave up first try -- after getting all the drops in, he refused to try a second time to do the pressure test, even though my husband said he would try harder to keep his eyes open. He was very off-putting and not very professional. Basically, told us my husband can't have any surgeries to save his eyesight because it doesn't look like they'd be able to do the pressure test afterward. Both my husband and I asked him to please try to do the test again since my husband's eyes were prepped, and he refused! The whole trip was a waste of time -- and we spent $34 to park! We were just deflated by the unprofessionalism and the fact they gave my husband no hope to repair his eyesight. Lazy doctor and absolutely no bedside manner for sure. They scheduled him for 6 months -- for what? Why make that trip again and pay so much to park at a facility that is so unprofessional.

The best service in an optical shop! Fixed my glasses that I broke while traveling. It took less…read morethan 10 minutes. I am so happy!

I called two days ago to inquire about the vision insurance that Modern Eye accepts, as well as the…read morecost and availability of certain frame brands without insurance. Shaq was curt and impatient. She let out a big sigh and said in an annoyed tone that she had customers waiting in the store. Am I not a potential customer? The call was ~ 3 minutes, and she certainly had dissuaded me from going to the store to having to suffer the unpleasantry of dealing with her.

Dr. Wortman was a fantastic eye doctor. I just had my first appointment with him yesterday and was…read morevery pleased with how thorough he was. My appointment was at 3, and I ended up being admitted by 3:30. I expected a bit of a wait because when do you ever go to the doctor and be admitted on time? Once I was in the examination room, I felt I had Dr. Wortman's full attention. He made sure to explain to me every thing he was doing and what that meant, and how he viewed my progress. He fitted me for contacts and truly listened to me when I said, I want quality, but cheap contacts. He tried on two pairs on my right eye and we finally settled on a good fit, which was reasonably priced and good quality. I am definitely very pleased with my experience here and found Dr. Wortman to be very personable, thorough, and he made me very comfortable throughout the whole process.

I frantically called Dr Wortman's office when my only pair of glasses cracked in half. yesterday…read moremorning. It was a hellish 24 hours of taped nerd glasses or extreme squintiness. I went on Yelp and he was the first office that accepted Drexel's Student Health Insurance (Sidenote: Why doesn't Modern Eye on Penn's campus take any student health insurance?) and were able to get me in at 11am the next day. I walked in today and was seen within 15 minutes of my appointment time and Dr. Wortman was really awesome! He took my poor, mangled spectacles and said he could give me 2 options with them: Try to tape me back up so I could get by or try to find me a pair of frames that matches the lens and switch them out. He was very up front in telling me he couldn't promise that he would have something that would fit around but he got someone to look while we did the exam. I thought that was very awesome, as most optometrists that I have gone to in the past were not so accommodating. They were able to find a pair of frames that matched my lenses! I now had a nice, sleep pair of (inexpensive) black frames. They even got all of the glue and things that wer eon the lenses from my frantic attempts to keep my glasses together! The lady that helped pick out my glasses was also really helpful. She let me sit and she picked out glasses based on the colors and stuff I wanted. I wanted something a bit funky. We found the perfect frames for me (thank god I didn't pick the most expensive) and she was great about helping me find the perfect pair with the right options at the right price for me. I can't wait to pick up my hot new glasses within two weeks, but thanks to Dr. Wortman, I'll be just fine in the meantime.

They were helpful over email confirming my questions and everything went as described!. The…read moreoperations were standard and timely (I came early for my appointment and they were able to start some stuff). All the people I interacted with were lovely and attentive. Would recommend!

Staff and doctors . In and out within 45 including picking frames. Been going here for idk long…read moretime.

The hospital nurses are the typical lot, they care... but only so much. Inpatient service isn't…read morepainful and if you get there in the morning they get to you quickly. I see Dr. Steven Breeker for my hypertension issues, he's a specialist and easily the best doctor in Philadelphia. I've gone around to a lot of different doctors in town, each one of them more pompous and irritating than the last. Dr. Breeker treats you like your a real person, not some idiot who can't figure out which end of the scale to get on. He's smart, reliable and knows his stuff. I was impressed by his knowledge and breadth of interest in new research of all types. Most doctors forget that they provide you a service, and if they can't be bothered to see you or talk to you like a human being then why keep them? In Philadelphia there are hundreds of doctors to choose from for all manner of problems, it took me 4 years to find Dr. Breeker, definetly give him a try.

I went in for blood work and the actual appointment was fine. The doctor was nice and thorough…read morewith answering my questions. But then waiting for results. Worst customer service ever! Such unresponsive doctors. Calling the hospital gives you an automated system..it takes 20 mins just to get through to talk to a live person. No results after 2 weeks. I leave voice mails for the doctor since they never answer the phone. I had to stop by the hospital just to pick up my results after 3 weeks. A month later, my results come in the mail. Ridiculous.

Great eye doctor, but you might find yourself waiting for an inordinate time in the waiting room…read more He has offices at Wills Eye and on the Main Line.

Although I had an initial positive experience with Dr. Schecter, and the nurses or PAs who do the…read moreintake are awesome, I would highly recommend seeking out a different practice for retinal issues. In my experience, the residents (who conducted the majority of the appointments and procedures) were almost all rude, uncommunicative, and seemed extremely inexperienced. I had a routine barrier laser procedure done there, and it became apparent in the middle of the procedure that the person doing it had never performed one before. I left with a corneal abrasion and new retinal symptoms which continue to this day, and when I went back for a checkup found out that the procedure hadn't been done correctly and needed to be redone. They also insisted that the procedure hadn't caused the increased symptoms, even though they started the next day and have continued daily for almost a year.

Everytime I've been to this doctor the front desk is rude and they are at least, AT LEAST 45…read moreminutes late in calling me back. The only reason they get an extra star is because the actual doctors, the people with a real education, are friendly and explain everything to me.