The department of emergency medicine at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan is one of the busiest emergency rooms in the country. Giving highly expert care to almost a quarter of a million people each year, the department has a reputation for excellence and professionalism.
Of those 250,000, about one fifth are consequently admitted into the hospital for the full treatment that they need.
Josyann Abisaab, as a physician in the emergency room at New York-Presbyterian, she sees the full gamut of issues commonly seen in emergency room settings, the most common of which are: chest pain, abdominal pain, infectious diseases, head trauma and gastrointestinal bleeding.
The emergency room at New York-Presbyterian is an officially designated 911 Ambulance-Receiving Center, offering Level I adult trauma services to patients arriving there.
