Ghazal Shakıbaıe, MD

Ghazal Shakıbaıe, MD is an Emergency Service physician at Acibadem Maslak Hospital in İstanbul. Her work centers on the assessment and initial care of patients who present with urgent medical needs, including adults and visitors from abroad who require prompt evaluation during their stay in the city.

Dr. Shakıbaıe graduated from Health Sciences University Hamidiye Uluslararası Faculty of Medicine in 2025. In the same year, she joined Acıbadem Healthcare Services, where she practices in the emergency setting. Her training and current role are focused on the first stage of care: recognizing urgent conditions, stabilizing patients where needed, and arranging onward assessment within the hospital.

Clinical focus

Dr. Shakıbaıe’s areas of expertise are emergency care, urgent medical evaluation and initial emergency treatment. In practice, this means she sees patients whose symptoms have appeared suddenly or worsened quickly and who need a timely medical opinion. An emergency evaluation typically begins with a structured review of the presenting complaint, the patient’s medical history and any medications, followed by a clinical examination. Based on these findings, she decides which investigations may be appropriate and whether the patient needs immediate treatment, observation or referral to another department within the hospital.

Initial emergency treatment in this context refers to the first measures taken to address an urgent problem, such as managing symptoms, monitoring vital signs and beginning care that can later be continued by the relevant specialty team. Dr. Shakıbaıe works within the wider hospital structure, so patients who require further specialist input are handed over in a coordinated way. The scope and timing of any treatment depend on the individual presentation, and not every urgent concern requires admission; some patients can be assessed, treated and discharged with guidance on follow-up.

How Dr. Shakıbaıe works with international patients

Dr. Shakıbaıe speaks Turkish and English. For patients coming from abroad, the Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, for example MRI, CT, X-ray or ultrasound reports, laboratory and pathology results, operative notes and discharge summaries, and arranges appointments and the hospital visit. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and symptoms, a review of existing imaging and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the options. Interpreters can be arranged when a patient prefers to communicate in a language other than Turkish or English. Video consultation is available for international patients, which can be useful for discussing a case or reviewing existing reports before or after a hospital visit; whether a remote consultation is suitable depends on the nature of the concern, and urgent symptoms are assessed in person in the emergency department.