Amrita Sethi, MD

Amrita Sethi is one doctor you should avoid at all cost! If you value your dignity and want real answers about your health — go to a physician who cares. Dr. Sethi is a gastroenterologist that believes that once you sign the consent — which she gives to patients just seconds before procedures — you have no rights, and she and her students will do whatever they want with your body. Forget about your wishes, privacy and modesty during your exam, and whatever she promises to you before getting a colonoscopy or endoscopic procedure because none will be kept. All Dr. Sethi cares about is using her patients as lab rats to teach students/​residents. You will be naked and unconscious with people coming in and out of the room as they take turn practicing on you while you’re out and in pain and can’t object. They use a strong narcotic (fentanyl) and two sedation drugs (Versed and Propofol) to keep patients unconscious for an hour; these procedures are normally done in 20 minutes or less. Versed is a drug that causes amnesia (and permanent long-​term memory loss for many patients) and is used to keep patients from remembering any rough treatment that occurs during the procedure after the exam is over. Using patients as unwilling test subjects, by keeping them sedated at three times the amount of time it takes a good physician to do one of these procedures, is unethical and dangerous. Go to NYU Hospital, Beth Israel, Mount Sinai or any other place where there are stringent protocols and safeguards to avoid injury or death (like intestinal perforation) due to malpractice while under anesthesia. If you have had an unpleasant experience with Dr. Sethi, do what I did and file a complaint with the NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH: Office of Professional Medical Conduct. Some nurses have spoken out (anonymously) against this practice, but Dr. Sethi will not be held accountable for her actions until one of her patients dies from her reckless behavior or is seriously injured and sues her and Columbia Medical Center for their misleading and vague consent form. A consent form that gives legal cover and permits Dr. Sethi to violate patients without their knowledge before or after these procedures.