Dr. Michael Berman

Great doctor, straight forward demeanor and extremely efficient office. Unlike many doctors, I have never had to wait more than a few minutes past an appointment time and usually its right on schedule or a few minutes early.
8 years ago (12-12-2017)

Although good at what he does, he is arrogant, rude, rough handling if you have weak eye muscles and has zero bedside manner toward people with physical disabilities. I have a painful degenerative progressive neuromuscular disease and use a power wheelchair. First problem: He was letting people go in ahead of me even though my appointment was before theirs and I showed up early. I was listening to music and he was looking in my direction while calling someone else in and when it became apparent I thought he was calling on me, he said that he had to wait for the eyedrops to work which would have been fine except that he added, “I can’t have you going back and forth “ He’s the one who decided to rent an inaccessible small office. It’s not my fault. That comment alone would’ve normally had me leaving immediately. However I needed a diagnosis so I stayed. It only got worse. He asked me why I am using a wheelchair and I told him. He started looking something up. Might have been the name of my neuromuscular disease as most doctors know little or nothing about it. It has such a complex nature that specialits are still learning and when a doctor reads even one article they think they know everything about it and make false assumptions when so much info is missing from most of what is out there . Then he had the nerve later to say it isn’t a wheelchair and called it something else- some term which implied I’m not disabled enough to be using a wheelchair. It’s called a power wheelchair or electric wheelchair regardless of his ignorance and terrible attitude. I have weakened eye muscles from this disease. It even affects my eyelids making it hard to keep my left upper eyelid open very far. It automatically droops even when someone is forcing it open. He roughly dug into the area above the socket to force the eyelid open and when I said “Ouch!” gruffly said my eyelid has to be open in order to examine it as if that gave him an excuse. When I explained that I have weak eye muscles he still didn’t apologize. He was sick and coughing into his hands. The area he dug into is now itchy indicating he scratched my skin and caused an infection with his filthy hands. He had no right to be there in that condition- especially when not using gloves. Opthamologists and optometrists get very close to people’s faces. I am prone to lung infections, colds. bronchitis and pneumonia and have asthma and obstructive sleep apnea. I also have weakened chest muscles from the disease making it very hard to cope even with a simple cold. When not sick it feels like my lungs have weights in them. If I get sick from him I’m filing a formal complaint.
8 years ago (24-10-2017)

Dr. Berman performed emergency surgery at Vancouver General Hospital in 2014 following the global rupture of my eye. The surgery succeeded in keeping the eye as an intact organ and gave me the hope of having some future vision. In addition, he was happy to provide information to my U.S. surgeon and seemed genuinely interested in my long-term outcome.
11 years ago (04-02-2015)

I had the cataracts in both of my eyes operated upon by Dr. Berman with excellent results. The operations went smothly and the recoveries were painless. As a person in the late 70s I am astounded by my new sharp eyesight.
16 years ago (16-10-2009)