Housing Works Keith D Cylar House Health Center

I made an appointment with a psychiatric nurse practitioner named Carlos in hopes of getting some immediate relief from severe and debilitating anxiety, insomnia, and headaches. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of mentioning that I am a survivor of child abuse. In his opinion, anyone who was abused as a child and suffers from a mental illness has the mental illness as a result of the abuse, even if the symptoms predate it. Therefore, if a patient is a child abuse survivor he always refuse to treat them and refers them to a psychotherapist. I came to Housing Works for specific physical symptoms and was not planning on discussing my abuse, but he kept harping on it aggressively until I ran to the restroom and burst into an uncontrollable crying fit.
He also made many specious medical statements. I am no doctor, so I waited to get home to look them up. My pcp prescribes me Temazapam (Restoril) for sleep, which shows up on his screen as it’s a controlled substance. However, he kept referring to it as Dormalin, which I later found out is a trade name for a completely different medication. I complained it wasn’t working, which I thought was due to paradoxical effects from its anxiolytic properties. He claimed it doesn’t have anxiolytic properties, which is neither true for Restoril nor Dormalin. He claimed I was already tolerant when I started on it as a result of having taken pain medication several years ago. He insisted opiates and benzodiazepines are cross-​tolerant, when is not true according to all medical literature. He also claimed that I had abused that pain medication years ago and yelled at me for not disclosing that to him when asked about use of illicit substances. He told me that taking it exactly as my doctor prescribed still counts as abuse. Furthermore, he went as far as to say that the condition for which it was prescribed was entirely in my head and the result of being abused… despite the fact that it was diagnosed by an orthopedist, two physiatrists, a neurologist, and a pain management specialist; and that I had undergone surgery at a major hospital to correct it.
I will be filing a complaint with the regulatory board to have Carlos’ license reviewed, but in the meantime I want to warn patients to avoid him at all costs.