Dr. Elssy Oms

“I was referred by my previous psychiatrist who retired and have been in great hands ever since!”

“Would give zero if possible.”

“I was there by a misunderstanding but this dr was trying to help my roommate understand that she has a dangerous mental illness and couldn't leave the hospital in the kindest way possible. I realized that we don't appreciate how hard it is to save lives when the person thinks they're not sick and everyone else is wrong. Only good doctors like this are tough enough to be harassed and attacked by mentally sick people. we need to protect them”

“Elssy, you are the most inconsiderate, unkind, insensitive, and dismissive healthcare provider I have ever encountered. You lack compassion in a field that requires, at the absolute minimum, some capacity for empathy. I was a mother separated from my 3 month old son during an incredibly vulnerable and frightening time in my life. My distress about being away from my baby was not something that needed to be punished, threatened, or used as justification to keep me away from him longer. I was emotional because I loved and missed my son. There is an enormous power imbalance between a psychiatric provider and a hospitalized patient. Your decisions determine whether someone can leave, return to their family, and regain autonomy over their life. That kind of authority should be exercised with extraordinary care, compassion, and humility. My experience with you was the opposite. I will never forget how powerless you made me feel. I will never forget feeling as though expressing a normal human emotion could be held against me. A psychiatric hospital should be a place where vulnerable people receive help. You are a disgrace to the mental health profession. You should never be a decision maker in someone’s life if you cannot recognize the difference between a person experiencing dangerous psychiatric instability and a mother experiencing profound distress because she has been separated from her infant. I sincerely hope you reflect on the way you speak to and exercise authority over the people placed in your care. And on a personal note, I hope every time you order soup, it arrives cold. I hope you hit every red light when you are already running late. And I hope you experience a lifetime of deeply inconvenient, completely harmless annoyances. Because while I would never wish actual suffering on another person, even you, I do hope you someday understand just how profoundly unpleasant you made an already painful experience for me and others in the same spot.”