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Best of Harford
David Reed, O.D.,
left, Jonathan
Seidenberg, M.D.,
and Daniel Byron,
O.D. at Seidenberg
Protzko Eye
Associates. PHOTO
HEALTH & WELLNESS
BEST EYE CARE
Seidenberg Protzko Eye Associates
2023 Pulaski Hwy., Havre de Grace. 410-939-6477;
520 Upper Chesapeake Drive, Suite 401, Bel Air. 443-643-4500. visionexperts.com
BY LLOYD FOX
Jonathan Seidenberg had a vision: to establish an eye
care practice that would embrace Harford County as its
own. Twenty-five years later, the center’s 40,000 clients
tell the tale.
“We are part of the community and we pride ourselves
in personalized service,” Seidenberg said. “We treat
patients as if they were family members — and we like
our families.”
With four sites (including Elkton and Chestertown)
and a staff of 70, the ophthalmologist and his partner,
Eugene Protzko, see patients from age 5 to 104 for routine
exams, cataract and glaucoma surgeries and other treat-
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ments. Clients aren’t shy about rating the practice.
“I know my eyes are in good hands,” one reviewer
wrote online.
Some cases resonate to the hilt, like that of a middleaged man who was blind.
“He’d lost his sight to a congenital disease and had
never seen his children,” Seidenberg said. Surgery
restored the man’s vision, in part, and when he returned
for a check-up, he was crying.
“I watched my [10-year-old] son play baseball for the
first time,” he told the staff. “I’d always heard him play,
but I’d never seen him do it.”