TOTAL DISGRACE: Illegal Cover-Ups, Open Racism, and Abuse of Disabled Patients…read moreI am writing this review today, May 18, 2026, to expose the absolute malpractice, bigotry, and corruption at Mount Sinai Hospital and Vascular Center (3131 Kings Highway, Brooklyn). If you are disabled, a minority, or in severe pain, stay far away from this place. The staff here operate with zero humanity.
I am a disabled Latino patient with severe walking difficulties, wearing a brace on my right knee and a brace on my right elbow. I booked a musculoskeletal and joint ultrasound appointment two weeks ago, filled out all my intake paperwork online, and arrived early at 2:10 PM. What followed was a multi-level nightmare of systemic abuse:
The 3rd Floor Vascular Office was clean except the patient bathroom was absolutely filthy, disgusting, and completely lacked toilet paper. Thank God I brought my own tissues. When I arrived, a bald Hispanic male receptionist with a beard and mustache demanded my ID. When I tried to show him my medical prescription, he told me to show it to the PA and asked me to sit down.
After waiting 35 minutes in pain, a tall male nurse (beard, mustache, glasses) took me aside, and I was suddenly surrounded for no reason by two female nurses who looked completely clueless. Despite the fact that I had uploaded everything to my online chart, carried PDF copies on my phone, and had the physical prescription in hand, I showed him the prescription, and he flatly refused to help, stating, "WE DO NOT DO THIS TEST HERE GO TO LL." I told him the Lower Level explicitly referred me here, but he refused to listen, making cheap excuses. When I literally pleaded with him, "Look at me, look at my walking difficulties, I can't go around in circles. You work here, can you please find out for me?", he looked a disabled person in the eye and said, "Go downstairs if not sorry, bye bye."
I went to Patient Relations on 3131Kings Highway to report this. The male Jewish employee there turned out to be ROMAN, THE DIRECTOR OF PATIENT RELATIONS. He was actively busy playing video games on his cell phone. As I stood there in agony trying to explain that I was in severe pain, he never even looked up at me because he was more interested in his phone screen. He coldly told me to "come back later or tomorrow" there is no one here to help I asked him since he was in the PR office, "Are you part of the Patient relations staff?" and he stated "NO I AM JUST USING THE OFFICE" and completely refused to assist me. He also screamed at me twice and I left in fear.
I went down to the Lower Level for advice. The two nasty women at the desk included the exact person who had misleadingly scheduled my appointment two weeks ago. When I asked where I was supposed to go, they snapped, "DON'T KNOW GO TO THE OTHER BUILDING," expecting a disabled patient to inherently know their campus layout. As I turned to leave in excruciating pain, they muttered a nasty, racist word under their breath. When I turned around and asked them what their problem was and why they were making racist remarks to a disabled Latino, they just sat there laughing at me.
I walk to the other building. The two security guards there were practically sleeping with zero professionalism. I asked for help, and the female guard took my ID but completely ignored my questions. She then told me, "Oh it is too difficult to explain, go there and go North then South." I walked away because she was half-asleep and the area smelled heavily of marijuana.
I didn't know where to go, nobody to help and I found the other Patient Relations office in the second building. A very sweet, caring lady who was finishing her lunch took the time to actually look into my chart. What she found was horrifying: someone on the 3rd floor had ILLEGALLY DELETED my appointment from the system to cover their tracks.
Because I keep meticulous records, I was able to prove to her that I had a valid appointment. When this kind lady called the 3rd floor to confront them, they explicitly lied to her and claimed I was never there.
However, they didn't realize I speak Spanish and I perfectly described every single employee, including the 3rd-floor front desk receptionist. While I was waiting earlier, that bald receptionist, unaware that I understood Spanish, was complaining to a cleaning lady named Maria, saying: "All these disgusting people, pigs, filthies made a mess here and eat the toilet paper, I am tired of all these degenerates."
Once I detailed this exact conversation and described the entire room of staff and patients, the 3rd-floor staff were caught red-handed in their lie. They completely froze and could not explain to the main office why they illegally deleted my appointment before 3:00 PM.
Even though the lady in the second building was nice, she refused to take a formal complaint, This place treats disabled human beings worse than a third-world country.