Reviews for Dartmouth, MA Ophthalmologist Dr. Daniel Townsend Cornea Services

Dr Townsend is awesome! I needed decompression surgery for TED, this is something very few doctors do nowadays. Everything went well and I couldn’t be happier. The entire staff has been friendly and helpful, and when it was time to get glasses (finally) they were very thorough. More

I have been wanting to review Dr. Townsend for a while and I suppose it's about time.To put it bluntly, Dr. Townsend has saved both my life and my eyesight. Literally. I was diagnosed with a very rare, cancerous tumor behind my left eye at the age of 13. Dr. Townsend performed the (more complicated than expected) surgery to remove the tumor and we have been BFF's ever since. Or something like that.I have read many reviews on other sites (doctor sites) about him and believe me, I know the good and the bad. I am, or rather, was, his youngest patient and despite having kids himself, I would not call him a kid person. He is direct, to the point, and extremely professional. I was also one of the most obnoxious patients in the world, given that there was a time in my life that I would whine and cry if he even tried to put eye drops in my eye, and he dealt with me the same way he would a 50 year old man -- suck it up, it needs to be done.He has since then performed numerous other surgeries and procedures on me, all in the hopes of saving my eyesight. We still hang out once a year or so when he checks up on me (which he will go out of his way and come in on days off to do) and gives me free eye drops (no more crying since I have to do it to myself about a half a dozen times a day).He is very often behind in schedule and his answering service can be a pain in the ass to deal with, making it almost impossible to make an appointment. BUT, if you can nail him down, he absolutely knows more about eyes than any of the other 500 doctors I saw before him and he is great at what he does. No one else touches my eyes and because of that, I still have vision in my left eye. I'm just waiting for the terrible day he tells me I need glasses (I look really bad in glasses). More