Sara Aydoğdu, MD

Sara Aydoğdu, MD is an Emergency Service physician at Acibadem Kent Hospital (Izmir) in İzmir. She provides medical assessment and care for patients who require emergency evaluation, with the order and scope of assessment directed by each patient’s immediate medical needs. Her work covers the initial evaluation of patients arriving with acute complaints, the delivery of urgent medical care, and the coordination of the further steps that an emergency presentation may require. She has more than 13 years in medicine.

Dr. Aydoğdu graduated from Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine in 2013. In 2026 she joined Acıbadem Healthcare Services, where she practices in the Emergency Service. Her clinical background is in the assessment and management of patients whose condition calls for prompt medical attention, and in ensuring that these patients are directed to the appropriate care once the initial evaluation has been completed.

Clinical focus

Dr. Aydoğdu’s areas of expertise are emergency medical assessment, urgent medical care and emergency care coordination. Emergency medical assessment involves taking a focused history, examining the patient and deciding which investigations are needed to clarify the cause of an acute complaint. Because the emergency setting covers a wide range of presentations, the assessment is adapted to the symptoms and the clinical picture at the time of arrival rather than following a single fixed pathway. Urgent medical care refers to the treatment provided during and after this initial evaluation, aimed at addressing the patient’s immediate medical needs while the underlying problem is being clarified.

Emergency care coordination describes the organizational side of her work: arranging the investigations, consultations and follow-up that an emergency presentation may require, and communicating with the relevant departments so that the patient’s ongoing care is planned in a structured way. For international patients, this may also include clarifying which findings from the emergency evaluation are relevant to their further treatment and ensuring that the information is documented for the physicians who will see them next. Dr. Aydoğdu approaches these steps cautiously, recognizing that the appropriate course of action depends on the individual patient’s condition and can only be determined after a clinical evaluation.

How Dr. Aydoğdu works with international patients

Dr. Aydoğdu communicates in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for patients who speak other languages. 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, arranges appointments and organizes 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. Video consultation is available for international patients who wish to discuss their situation before traveling, although an emergency presentation itself requires in-person assessment, and any video discussion is intended to complement, not replace, that evaluation.