Schenectady Pulmonary and Critical Care Sleep Disorders Center

Dr. Goykhman and his trusty assistant Nicole have been taking care of me for the last few years and they have controlled my asthma like no other! Best team and staff around for any of your breathing needs!

Update: The doctors are good but the office staff is horrible. They never called to set up an test I needed so I had to call and get it set up. I asked if I could leave an important message for my Dr. The person advised she had to put me on hold. She left me sitting waiting for her to come back for over 30 minutes. The whole time I could hear all their conversations. She never did come back. She waited until the office was closed for the day and I finally hung up and was unable to call back because they were now closed. For over 30 min she let me sit there and never came back. I would say it would have to be a privacy violation since I could hear them the whole time. I think she did it so she didn't have to help me and so that no one else could call in. Good doctors....horrendous office staff.... previous review: So you will give me a hard time for being 6 minutes late (7 by the time you even looked at your watch. I stood at the window for at least a minute or two waiting while you talked to your co-workers). Then I sat in your waiting room for 24 minutes only to be told that you didn't have the results of my sleep study that I did back in March (1 months ago). I used vacation from work and drove 45 minutes and wasted gas. Now I have to take more vacation from work and drive again in about a month. I am not happy. Also, a 5 minute window is ridiculous. Everywhere else is 15 minutes. I was 6 minutes late because I had to wait to leave work and hit several stop lights. I'm so mad.

First. They set a date for me to get the sleep study machine. Go to pick it up and they tell me it has to be returned by next day at 4pm. Well I was never told that. I work on the road. And I had another doctors apt scheduled the next day. Then they give me a card with my apt. I show up. And they say oh. Your appointment is in 10 days. We never scheduled that. Well do you think I wrote up the apt card? So unorganized now I’m out pay

I would not recommend this place to anyone. After my sleep test resulted in a sleep apnea diagnosis, I had real trouble with adjusting to using the CPAP machine as it was significantly worsening my already poor ability to sleep. Even more discouraging was how when I needed to explain to Dr. Goykhman my questions and concerns about the treatment, in hopes of figuring out if any adjustments for the machine could be helpful to my treatment’s success, I simply couldn’t get a word in. Upon only beginning to explain my concerns and why I had felt largely unable to use the CPAP machine more than a few times, I was met with only being interrupted, spoken to with a very rude attitude, and feeling unable to ask any of my questions before being told the appointment is over, being motioned out the door and told to just use the machine and not waste his time. This appointment was a few months after my sleep test, and the only piece of useful information I was given that day was how apparently my sleep apnea is so bad according to my sleep test, that I’m at risk of dying in my sleep every night, which would’ve been really nice for me to know from the start! Before this appointment I was only told that my oxygen levels are lower than they should be while asleep. I cancelled all future appointments with this doctor, then about 3 weeks ago, I called this office to ask if I could please see another doctor there because I’m still concerned about my condition. I was told on the phone how apparently it’s their policy that they need to ask the doctor I had already seen to give permission for me to see someone else there?? And that they would call me if that happened… I thought that was strange, and I have not received any calls back.

My pulmonary doctor retired so I was referred here. Like every doctor I have seen dr sinha claimed he would be able to figure out why I get winded. Said my echo showed diastolic abnormalities, referred me to his buddy Dr Dibble who was awful. So once again even going to the gym everyday I am struggling but Dr sinha dropped me and won’t answer my questions on the portal. So now I don’t have a pulmonary Dr even though my cardiologist wanted me to due to my oxygen rates dropping on stress test.