Welcome! Youssef Botros, M.D. joins Essex-Hudson Gastroenterology!

Essex- Hudson Gastroenterology is proud to announce that Dr. Youssef Botros has joined the practice effective July 19th, 2021. He will be seeing patients in our Jersey City office and performing Same Day Procedures at Jersey City Medical Center and at our partner facilities. Dr Youssef Botros is a graduate of Cairo University, Faculty of Medicine, having received his Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery as well as his Master’s in Gastroenterology and Tropical Diseases. He continued his Internal Medicine Residency training in the United States at New York Medical College at Saint Joseph’s Regional Medical Center Program, where he…

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Study: Patients Report Higher Level of Satisfaction When Practices Offer Culturally Diverse Staff

Doctors’ offices work to provide optimal comfort for patients and their families. Usually you might not think about it, but the choices that have been made about the furniture, office décor and even the staff themselves has the patient’s comfort in mind.  A study done in 2002 by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health pointed out to an underrated factor that we pride ourselves on – being culturally diverse. The study concludes that patients are more apt to visit and feel more confident about their level of care if the physician is of their race. But more importantly, placed…

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