Albert Ayoub, MD

Don’t go here.
Dr. Ayoub is alright — mostly he’s too busy to really give you the time and attention that you feel you deserve from a doctor, especially if you’re someone who is having health issues like I have had in the past.
However, more so than the doctor itself, the women who work at the front desk are incredibly rude and incompetent. It took me three tries of faxing over a medical release form to finally get someone on the phone who had not list the fax when it came in. At that point, they still hadn’t taken care of my files (which they had well over a week to do) and when I became concerned that my files would not reach my new doctor by the time my appointment came up, I was told that was not their problem. I pointed out that they had lost my fax several times and the woman told me that «one does not have to do with the other». Her failure to make simple connections is concerning.
A woman who works the desk there a year back, told me when I called about an emergency situation the woman told me that unless I could get into her office in less than an hour, I wouldn’t be able to be seen (this was a Friday around noon). I said I couldn’t make it there in that time from where I worked and asked if she could give me a recommendation for someone who would be open later on a Friday… She said she «doesn’t do that» and hung up on me.
They also want to charge me for «copies“of my files… I pointed out that it is 2015 and she should just be able to scan them over as most places have gone digital… she said it’s their «medicaid» policy. I’m not sure, but I don’t believe that this is a thing… Literally no other doctor that I have ever had anywhere has ever charged me for sending my files anywhere. I pointed this out as well and was once again old that «one does not have to do with the other». This is apparently her to go to phrase that she uses at will.
While I would never pretend that the work these people do is easy –I’ve been to that office: it’s overcrowded, understaffed, and overbooked. Still, I don’t think there is an excuse for constantly losing faxes, for being rude to people who call when there is a medical emergency, or in general, acting like a jerk.

This is the WORST GYN I have ever been to! I have visited him at this practice as well as the Brooklyn Health Center.
1. He doesn’t respect your time. He shows up hours late for appointments and has patients waiting on him — never apologizes.
2. He is rough and makes you feel so uncomfortable. He doesn’t care to ask any questions and rushes through the procedure making you feel totally violated and uncared for.
3. Don’t even think about asking questions or describing symptoms because he will just dismiss you and make you feel stupid.
4. He has literally sat on his iPhone throughout my visit to his office, like he was so preoccupied with Facebook or something?
If you can avoid him, PLEASE DO! HORRIBLE HORRIBLE!!! No bedside manner whatsoever!!!

Don’t go to Dr. Ayoub!!!
Both he and his office are completely incompetent. It’s a long story, but I’ll try to make it short!
UNHELPFUL/​UNWILLING TO ANSWER QUESTIONS
Dr. Ayoub would not recommend a birth control pill for me. He asked me what I wanted, I said, uh, what are the options. He listed them and I picked one off the list and that was that. I would think a good doc would tell me why I would pick one over another and give advice. Dr. Ayoub did not seem to want to answer any questions.
UNRESPONSIVE OFFICE
The prescription Dr. Ayoub eventually wrote for said birth control pills was illegible. My mail order pharmacy left several phone messages and sent faxes to Dr. Ayoub’s office with no response. I had to call Dr. Ayoub’s office again myself to get them to call the pharmacy with the prescription info. And they asked me what the prescription was for, they didn’t even have it in their records!
BILLS INCORRECTLY
I have been to this office 3 times and been billed wrong every time. Preventive care is free under my insurance plan, but he always bills as though I came in for a medical problem, when it’s just a routine visit to get a pap smear/​birth control refill. Similar to the prescription issue, it’s a huge pain to correct the problem.
APPOINTMENTS ALWAYS LATE
Finally, in the 3 times I’ve been to this office, Dr. Ayoub has never been less than 45 minutes late. It’s ridiculous.
Just to reiterate, avoid this doc at all costs!

I agree with the previous reviews. I typically see Dr. Fuchs, but saw Dr. Ayoub in order to get quick treatment for a bladder infection. His bedside manner is nonexistent, and he’s condescending besides. While I was there for the bladder infection (bear in mind I’m in physical pain, and I’ve waited patiently in their waiting room for over an hour), I asked him to check on the placement of my paraguard iud with a sonogram. Dr. Ayoub inserted my iud previously, but of course he didn’t remember, and brushed me off when I told him that I always located the iud with a sonogram during these visits because I had never been able to locate the strings on my own. He insisted on trying to locate it with a manual exam, a painful process (particularly with a bladder infection). And, no joke, he says after no success: «You should have told me in the beginning that you always get a sonagram.» Fast forward to me getting a sonogram to locate the iud, and Dr. Ayoub glancing at me and stating, «You should have emptied your bladder before you get a sonogram.» I did of course, but was having problems with my bladder DUE TO THE BLADDER INFECTION.
What can I say? My fellow females, avoid him at all costs. I don’t think he knows a vagina from his asshole, and he’s utterly devoid of any bedside manner.

I had been going to Dr Fuchs (her partner, same office) for 4 years. I never had any problems with them until I went in for yet another regular check-​up a few months ago. I made an appointment to have the results read by Dr. Ayoub. He told me that I had genital herpes. I was in shock and I could not believe it. I asked him please to explain the test to me. Apparently, there are two types of herpes, oral and genital, type 1 and type 2, respectively. The test that I had done was not a test that separated the antibodies of the two types, but one that gave the ratio of antibodies of type 1 v. type 2. When the doctor explained this to me I told him that I had herpes on my lips before and that maybe that was what was showing up on the test. But he assured me over and over again that I had genital herpes. I asked him so many times if he was sure that he offered to explain it to me in Spanish, in case I did not understand English (I am Spanish, but… really!?) He sent me home with a prescription for Valtrex and a dvd entitled: Your life with herpes. I don’t think I need to expand on how I felt.
As it turns out, I did not have genital herpes, as I suspected. So, when I had the chance, I went back to see Dr. Ayoub to get a prescription from him as I wanted to express my complaint. He saw that I had had some further tests to separate the two types of antibodies and that it had come out negative for genital herpes. He said: «Ah, I see that the herpes issue was cleared up, I’m glad about that». And I say, «well, yes, it was, but you told me that I had herpes for sure so I did spend three weeks thinking I had herpes when I did not». And he says «ah, well, I’m happy that’s sorted». I was upset by then because he had the perfect chance to apologize and he didn’t. So, once I had the prescription in hand, I tried to explain to him that he should not tell anyone ever again that it was certain they had genital herpes when it was clearly not certain. He denied saying that to me. Then, after I swore to him that he had told me that I had it for sure, he said the tests said so. I tried to explain to him that actually, the test did not say so, because it was a test for RATIOS. He did not admit any wrongdoing. And I left very very disappointed because he avoided my points and refused to be reasonable. Plus, I ended up having issues with the bill and Dr. Fuchs was the most unhelpful and rude about that, too. But for that story, I wrote a review only for her.

I added this to separate from Dr. Yael Fuchs, though they’re connected practices, it’s a different doctor and I’d rather not tarnish her reputation when I’ve never had the experience of using her. I hesitated a year before leaving this review.:
The wait was insane, the room barely had enough chairs which was packed with pregnant women and myself. I would’ve let them go ahead of me if I didn’t wait almost 2 hours myself being one of the last people. The nurse was curt and visibly irritated, and why? She hadn’t received a single break all day and it was way past her lunch break.
I see my doctor and immediately cringe: he is a spitting image of Quentin Tarantino, grimace and all.
But I push that aside, hoping this general first check up to go well.
He asks me the usual questions to which I reply no, then he asks me why am I even there in a very condescending manner that feels more interrogative than helpful. I told him friends urged me that I was at an age I should’ve been going already, I mean how am I supposed to know the proper age or time? And I’ll never forget his reply:
«You mean your friends with boyfriends.» and smirks with that awful Pulp Fiction directing face without the talent.
He continues the session in about a 2 minute check up in which rushing through like there’s no purpose and he has better things to do. It helps I feel violated, the door has been open the whole time and his assistant gets to witness it all.
I have never been made to feel more embarrassed or stupid in a doctor’s appointment in my life thus far. I’d rather get a pap smear by Hugh Hefner at a Taco Bell in Cambodia.
Oh, and cash only.