Ömer Faruk Karakoç, MD

Ömer Faruk Karakoç, MD is an Emergency Service physician at Acibadem Maslak Hospital in İstanbul. He assesses and treats patients who present with conditions that require urgent medical attention, and his work centers on the rapid evaluation, initial treatment and stabilization of patients in the emergency setting. He has more than three years of experience in medicine and consults in Turkish and English, which allows him to communicate directly with many international patients who arrive at the hospital.

Dr. Karakoç graduated from Balıkesir University Faculty of Medicine in 2023. In 2026, he joined Acıbadem Healthcare Services, where he practices within the Emergency Service of the hospital in İstanbul. In this role he is part of the team that receives patients around the clock and provides the first medical response before further care is arranged with other departments as needed.

Clinical focus

The clinical work of Dr. Karakoç covers the core tasks of an Emergency Service physician. The first of these is emergency assessment: when a patient arrives, he takes a focused history, performs a clinical examination and determines how urgent the situation is, so that the most time-critical problems are addressed first. This assessment guides the choice of any diagnostic tests and the order in which care is delivered.

He also provides initial emergency treatment and urgent medical care. This includes starting appropriate first-line measures for acute symptoms and conditions, monitoring the patient’s response and deciding whether the patient can be treated and discharged from the emergency department or should be admitted or referred to a specialist team. A further area of his work is patient stabilization, meaning the steps taken to support vital functions and keep the patient’s condition from worsening while the underlying cause is investigated. Because emergency presentations vary widely, the specific measures depend on the individual patient and are decided at the time of assessment.

How Dr. Karakoç works with international patients

Dr. Karakoç consults in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for patients who speak other languages. For patients who contact the hospital in advance, the Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, such as 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 available options. Video consultation is also available for international patients, which can be useful for reviewing records or discussing questions before or after a visit; it does not replace in-person emergency care, and patients with acute symptoms should be evaluated in person without delay.