Favorite Optometrist?

[audioboy.livejournal.com]

After a bad experience with $BigNameEyewareStore, I'm looking for someplace a little more friendly and personable. Any recommendations in the Davis Square area or Somerville in general? (I'll probably be doing bifocals and computer glasses, if that helps.)

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[mattdm.livejournal.com]

I've been very happy with the Harvard Square Eye Care between Porter and Davis. (As the name implies, they also have a Harvard Square location.) Nice, friendly, never kept me waiting.

I previously went to the Harvard Vanguard location right by the T, and am less enthusiastic. Doctors and exams were fine, but the staff seemed a little bit... used to working in a big institution, I guess. And, when the company that makes the contact lenses I've been wearing for years discontinued that line, the switched me to something more expensive and less comfortable and we went through several rounds of that. It wasn't awful and I switched because my insurance changed, but when I mentioned this to the doctor at the new place, he knew right away that the 2-week ones had been replaced with almost identical 1-month-wear lenses — so, same feel, _less_ expensive overall. I don't know if the Harvard Vanguard doctors didn't know this, were attached to the two week timeframe for some reason, or maybe even were actively trying to push the more expensive option, but whichever way.

So there's my little story. Didn't actually mean to make a big complainy rant, but, hey, livejournal. My actual point is that the Harvard Square Eye Care place is nice.

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

Seconded. This place was efficient, professional, and did not push purchases beyond the prescription I got. (I order glasses online).