M.D. Samir Charkazli

I'm a 78-year-old retired teacher who'd given up on gardening due to crippling sciatica. Dr. Charkazli didn't just offer another pill. He spent an hour mapping my pain with this detailed anatomical chart, explaining how each nerve worked. His 'gentle rhizotomy' procedure felt like nothing—just warmth—and three days later, I was planting tulips. At Acibadem Atasehir, they treated me like a person, not a chart. He even asked about my roses at the follow-up.

Our 8-year-old Leo was terrified of doctors after a bad fracture. Dr. Samir (as Leo calls him) performed magic. He used cartoon analogies—calling nerve blocks 'sleepy juice for angry wires'—and let Leo hold the ultrasound probe. For pediatric complex regional pain syndrome, he created a game-based rehab plan. The hospital play specialist coordinated with him. We've gone from daily tears to Leo asking when his next 'nerve adventure' with Dr. Samir is. This isn't just pain management; it's childhood restoration.

I arrived at Acibadem's ER at 2 AM with trigeminal neuralgia so severe I was dehydrated from screaming. Dr. Charkazli came in wearing scrubs, calm amid my panic. Instead of heavy sedation, he did an immediate ultrasound-guided infraorbital nerve block right there in the ER bay. The relief was instantaneous—like a switch flipped. He then sat and explained the 'lightning nerve' phenomenon in simple terms. His emergency intervention wasn't a patch; it was a precise, life-restoring strike. I've never felt so seen in crisis.

As a competitive marathoner, a failed spinal surgery left me with scar tissue and despair. Dr. Charkazli approached it like an engineering puzzle. He used pulsed radiofrequency ablation tailored to athletic neural patterns, combined with a proprioception retraining protocol he designed himself. At follow-ups, he analyzed my gait metrics. Last month, I ran a 10K. His approach isn't about masking pain; it's about neural re-education. At Acibadem, the collaboration between his pain team and physio felt like a professional sports clinic.