Dr. Sylvester Booker, OB/GYN

Dr. Sylvestor Booker was THE WORST. I left that place crying. He’s extremely insensitive for him to be a obgyn. Even his assistant said it, they are also inefficient in keeping basic information. I left there in tears because of this condescending fool. I’ll never go back to him OR HUH. Because of him going forward i’ve been really picky about who’ll be my gynecologist and I’ve found a great one at Washington Hospital and I’m extremely satisfied.

This place is a mess especially the womens health clinic on the 4^th floor. Their customer service stinks and their time wait to be seen is terrible. They schedule you for a 9:50 appt. it will be a hour before you get back in a room, then another hour before a actual doctor comes in to see you. The medical assistants are rude, and ghetto especially the one the one with the blue lipstick. They really need to take some customer service skills. After waiting a whole three hours the ‘doctor’ comes in and gives me a paper for blood work and says I can go. This place is terrible and Im even ashamed for the hospital being as though this is HU. Terrible I will Never go back and I advise you tp STAY AWAY FROM THIS GHETTO MESS THEY CALL A HOSPITAL/​CLINIC.

Worst doctor and office I’ve ever encountered. I wouldn’t go back here for a band-​aid, let alone for an important annual check-​up.

I really wish I could say that Dr. Booker is so great that seeing him is worth stomaching the 2 hour waits, incompetent staff, foul-​mouthed patrons and generally chaotic atmosphere, but the truth is NO doctor is worth all that.
Dr. Booker is kind, insightful and knowledgeable. Yet I still get the feeling he is gently trying to shut me up and get me out of the office so his next patient (who is typically standing at the reception desk cursing at the staff) doesn’t literally lose her mind in the waiting room.
I don’t feel bad writing this review, because I actually think Dr. Booker will benefit from having a few less patients — he is constantly overbooked and looking rushed and stressed.
If you have 3 hours to spend in the middle of the week day waiting for your appt., and you don’t need more than 7 minutes of attention, then Dr. Booker is a very lovely, nice doctor to have.

According to information via google, Dr. Booker has practices throughout Washington, DC. I came to see him at the Howard University Hospital practice (there are probably half a dozen ob-​gyns who work out of this office). Here’s the reality: Dr. Booker himself is a 3 or 4, but the office and the hospital is about a 1.
Howard University Hospital is a MESS — very poorly organized, and the staff who work there are far from friendly. My appointment with Dr. Booker was at 3:05 on a weekday — I arrived by 2:30 to fill out necessary paperwork, and by 3:45 I was still waiting to be seen. I eventually was called out of the waiting room and into the back, but there, simply my blood pressure was taken and I was weighed, and then I had to go into ANOTHER room and wait. And wait. Until about 4:30. Several times I asked the nurses/​people floating around how much longer, and I was informed that there were still several people in front of me. Ugh.
When I met with Dr. Booker, he was all kindness. An older gentleman who has been in the business for over 40 years. I was hesitant about going to a male gyno (I could not find a female one who takes my insurance with anything less than a 3 month wait), but he put me at ease. The nurse working with him was very kind, too. He asked me a few questions, did the usual female check-​up things (not nearly as bad as I had anticipated), and then we had about a 4 minute Q&A session in his office… during which time, the FIRE ALARM went off.
What I liked was his professional and kind bedside manner — what I didn’t like was how incredibly rushed I felt afterwards. I had sooo many questions for him, and he basically gave me the number of someone to call (this was before the fire alarm went off and I was still being rushed). I don’t know, it seems like my having to wait 1.5 hours after my appointment time, just to be rushed after a short examination and only a few questions is not very cool. However, I think the booking at the office is poorly managed so he (and the rest of the doctors) are operating under a time crunch to see as many patients as possible.
I might return, I might not. Dr. Booker is a great doctor, but I will probably be shopping around for a better office in the future.