Zabrin Inan, MD

I don’t think it would be an overstatement to say that Dr. Inan saved my life.
About six years ago, I was hospitalized for acute anxiety and bi polar disorder. It was serious enough that I was not able to return to work for five more months, partially due to medications that had to be gradually brought up to the right dose. While doing so, my Dr. wanted to see me twice a week in the beginning due to some serious side effects/​issues that would have serious consequences. It did the trick, I started feeling myself «coming back to life» Since I didn’t really think I was bi polar given what I knew about the condition, I thought that I felt good enough after a year to stop using the medications. The Dr. I had been seeing had move away and within months I was headed back into a debilitating depression coupled with anxiety. As another year passed it became clear to me that there was really only one way to end the depression. Luckily I was referred to Dr. Inan first.
When I called her to make an appointment, she told me that since I would be a new patient, the earliest she would be able to see me would be in five weeks. She took down my information over the phone, gave me an appointment date, and asked what she would be seeing me for. I told her what I was being treated for, and that I’d been off my medication for about a year, and she said that I was to come in as soon as possible. She kept me on the phone while she figured out when she would be able to see me, and insisted that I get in that afternoon. When I got there, she confirmed my pervious Dr’s anxiety/​bi polar diagnosis, got me back on my medication, and gave me studies that show 60% of the people who were being treated for bipolar and go off the medication end their lives.
She put me back on the same medications, and again had to work up to the full dose in increments with several visits. During one of those visits after she had seen an improvement she said that when this medication is working properly we could do something about that ADHD, something I had been treated for as a child but had not told either her or my previous Dr., and it was pretty impressive that she could so accurately make that call in just a couple visits.
At first I was concerned about the amount of different medications and when I brought the prescriptions to the pharmacist, I asked if I was being over medicated. She looked at them, asked if it was bi polar, anxiety, and ADHD? she said no, I wasn’t. Her opinion was confirmed when I had to have a different Dr. prescribe my refills. He saw nothing unusual, and even noted that she took care in making sure that the medications she prescribed were well paired.
Dr. Inan is in the midst of a family situation that I can only imagine are horrific. It has resulted in some bad publicity and maybe some rash decisions that a mother would not see as rash under the circumstances. There are two sides to every story, and since the one that will sell newspapers is the one that is in them, it is probably the one that makes the best headline, which is really sad. I can’t imagine going through something so personal and heartbreaking, and have it all become a headline to sell newspapers.

I do not think it’s an overstatement to say that I almost died under this woman’s care. She is very intelligent and seems to care about her patients, but I cannot recommend her… Like other reviewers have mentioned, she likes to manage every symptom with medication; I was on at least 5 – 10 meds at any time, including lithium (I have unipolar depression and GAD), powerful mood stabilizers and, most notably, fistfuls of Xanax and Ritalin. I ended up developing a dependency on the Ritalin, which she supported in prescribing me ever and ever higher amounts. The high amounts on Ritalin I was on – much higher than is typically prescribed for adults with ADHD, in combination with all the other medicines, caused me to have two clonic-​tonic seizures. Tests at the hospital determined that I have no seizure disorder and it was the «cocaine levels of Ritalin» (to quote the ER docs) that had caused the seizures. Where was Dr. Inan during all this? MIA, of course, and later told me to check myself into an inpatient facility or she would no longer see me. I DID check into Lakeshore Hospital, where I got a new meds doc, was immediately taken off all the meds and given one low dosage of Effexor and Wellbutrin respectively, which is all I’ve been on for the last four years.
In addition to the overmedicating and refusal to take responsibility for my seizures, she is inappropriately personal with her patients… breast pumping in appointments, inviting patients to her home, etc etc. I could go on, but I hope this review helps you make your decision.