CityMD East 50th Urgent Care - NYC — Local services in New York

Richard Tan MD, might have whatever issues with black neurodivergent women who knows but I an unsuspecting patient simply walking in for a work physical was instead accosted by his incompetence and biases. Go to an intersectionality seminar you plebian. Anyway. My BP was high. It always is. I rarely am listened to, feeling safe or comfortable. I suffer greatly from hypervigilance. I also tend to give worse readings if practitioners continue to test my BP. It's a sensory issue and I am neurodivergent. The cuff tightening on my arm is a visceral sensation I've had to deal with since my childhood.

Instead of listening to me he told me to go to the ER. I have a lot of medical tied trauma and have often listened to this advice in the past only to find out a "professional" blows things out of proportion in order to scare me into care. New Flash, if I'm aware of my medical highs and lows, I'm already active in my own care. He threatened not to sign off on my medical clearance if I didn't. I went to Mount Sinai, their ER was less stressful though I am mid anxiety attack at this point. The attending doctors talk to me, "Yeah your blood pressure is high. How do you feel?" "Fine. I was fine at least. Now I feel really upset." "Yeah I can tell. We don't treat numbers though." LET ME REITERATE SHE TOLD ME THEY DONT TREAT NUMBERS. I got home late after being discharged completely forgetting about why I needed cityMD in the first place, my med clearance for work. So I go back after a few days of avoiding. They tell me actually still can't you took too long to come back, wow. Sounds like they should have emphasized that. Whatever. Have to push back going back to work much to my superior's dismay. I return friday the 22nd to finally get my medical clearance. I don't know if they just don't do it often but there was supposed to be documents to fill out. Whatever. I send them what I actually needed to be filled out.

I haven't been back to work for two weeks at this point. School has already started. I'm not a gym teacher so my blood pressure doesn't really factor in like... anything I do lol. The issue being this was taking forever. Instead of being empathetic with me, like does he not realize this? I need this to WORK. He says "actually I don't feel comfortable doing the physical clearance but I'll do the other page." Oh wow. Thank you so much RICHARD. NOW I STILL CAN'T GO TO WORK :) It's almost like, you should lead with that kind of thing. I don't WANT to go to CITYMD for this buddy. I HAVE to. For my job. If I could go to a doctor who knew me, don't you think I would've done that? No, you probably think I'm like, mentally deficient or something. Obviously.

Very great doctor. Very human. If you're a BIPOC fem presenting individual I totally recommend this guy if you want unnecessary stress which incidentally raises BP, salt shoved into your medical trauma wounds and your therapist to get an earful and emergency check ins. Richard is the guy!...

I left a review 4 years ago and wanted to leave a new one. Just left and had an amazing experience AGAIN. I live im between 2 urgent cares. This being one of them and i forgot how wonderful. Clean, professional, easy, and kind staff. Dr. Richard Tan and his Assistant Alyssa gave me so much relief by simply listening and giving prompt action. I have a list of ailments but while waiting for my pharmacy to fill order...Dr. Tan was able to give me my 1st dose right there in office. 4 years ago i did not have a service dog but now i do. No one treated me any difference or gave me any hassle. The other Urgent care texted me to give a rating and i gave a 4 out of 10. 🙈 so many reasons. So that shows you the difference. These guys are 5 out of 5 or 10 out of 10! 🥳 TY!

4 years ago: Loved my experience....would recommend to anyone. Check in was a breeze. Minimal paperwork. Minimal wait time. Check in is technologically advanced. Machine scans your id and insurance card. No risk of staff losing it or misplacing it. Only paperwork is in the end when you sign your copay and get receipt. I went in with an ailment, walked out cured. (My ear). Physician Stephanie Santana was amazing kind, gentle, thorough, cautious and patient. Not just with me but with her assistant Valerie who was also all the same things. Great teamwork. The care and staff here are awesome. Even get cool freebies like working pens, pack of tissues and hand...

I Returned to this location after originally being written a prescription of the antibiotic Amoxicillin which i will admit i did stop taking it for two days and then finished it once noticing the bacteria had returned due to it being my first time taking any antibiotic and having no heads up about the seriousness of completing the prescription. I will take the blame for that, however the second time i returned and informed Dr. W. Chen of this and after doing research prior to coming in i asked him if the reason why i stil have bacteria present in my throat is due to it becoming immune to it. He replied something along the lines of “bacteria doesn’t become immune to antibiotics”. Taking his word for it i agreed to him writing the SAME prescription of Amoxilicin. This time i made sure to follow all of the directions and complete it and even after all of this i still noticed the presence of bacteria in my throat. I then decided to go to another location nearby my apartment and was FINALLY informed by another doctor that the bacteria had indeed became immune to the Amoxiclin. Dr. Chen was a respectful nice guy i just wish he had been more informed about the bacteria and the necessary...