Patient Experience
My 92-year-old grandmother, Fatma, was fading. Multiple doctors had given up, attributing her weakness to 'old age.' Dr. Emre was different. He didn't just listen to her heart; he listened to her. He spent an hour reviewing her old, scattered records from three different cities. He found a pattern everyone missed: a slow, silent bleed from medication she'd taken for decades. His correction was simple, but his approach was profound. He treated her like a person with a history, not a chart. She's back tending her roses. We call it Dr. Emre's miracle.
As a foreign engineer working in Adana, I had no local family. When a sudden, crushing chest pain hit at 3 AM, I panicked. The ER at Acibadem called Dr. Bozkırlı. He arrived in minutes, calm amidst my chaos. He explained, in clear English mixed with reassuring Turkish, every step. It wasn't a heart attack, but a severe esophageal spasm mimicking one. His emergency differential diagnosis saved me from unnecessary invasive procedures. He followed up personally for three days. He wasn't just my doctor; he was my anchor in a medical storm.
Our 8-year-old son, Ali, had mysterious cyclical fevers for months—a week of hell, then two weeks fine. Pediatricians were stumped. A colleague suggested Dr. Emre for an 'internal medicine perspective.' He got on the floor with Ali, asked about his soccer games, and turned the exam into a game. He connected dots between the fevers and subtle joint complaints we'd dismissed as 'growing pains.' He suspected an auto-inflammatory syndrome and coordinated with a pediatric rheumatologist. His holistic, detective-like approach found the thread in the labyrinth. Ali is now on targeted treatment and back on the field.
I came for a routine cholesterol check-up, a box-ticking exercise. Dr. Emre's 'routine' is different. He asked about my sleep, my stress at the new job, and even my caffeine intake. He noticed a slight tremor I'd ignored for years. Instead of just prescribing statins, he ordered specific thyroid tests based on that observation. It turned out I had hyperthyroidism, silently affecting my heart and mood. What was meant to be a 15-minute visit became a life-changing diagnosis. He treats the patient in the chair, not just the numbers on the screen. My health trajectory was completely rerouted.