Dr. Enrique Yambao Galura, MD

Patient presents. Subjective distress recorded. Vital signs of emotion absent. Interaction commenced. Observations logged with procedural accuracy. No engagement detected. Presence registered, comprehension absent. Consultation resembles autopsy: methodical, precise, sterile. The living subject exists only as data points. Attempts to communicate nuance, to convey instability, were met with the clinical equivalent of vacuum. Words articulated dissolve in the cold air of the office; meaning unintegrated, urgency ignored. Politeness, patience, technical correctness — all present, yet hollow. Beneath the veneer lies an apparatus indifferent to the human substrate, a mechanism that catalogues without attending, measures without interpreting, acknowledges without perceiving. During acute psychological fluctuation, the absence of attunement was total. Responses were formulaic, footnotes in a ledger of observation, gestures of engagement without substance. The patient’s voice, the locus of… experience, becomes irrelevant; one’s reality exists only as a recorded anomaly, never as a variable in treatment. The atmosphere is glacial. The emotional temperature, absolute zero. Consultation terminates. Subject departs with destabilization, alienation, and acute awareness of existential irrelevance. One leaves not with insight, not with guidance, but with the haunting impression of a living autopsy: observed, measured, recorded — never acknowledged. Polished surface conceals a void of care, where ethical and epistemic imperatives of psychiatry are suspended indefinitely. This experience is not anomalous but structural: clinical mechanics perfected; patient humanity rendered inert. Presence cataloged, voice dissolved, suffering documented but never integrated. Prospective patients should be warned: procedural civility is not synonymous with comprehension. Here, one’s existence is acknowledged only as a footnote, never as a locus of care.

I went to him back in the 90's. He was excellent

After spending the minimal time with me for Dr Galura to receive payment; this psychiatrist informed my husband he should divorce me and leave me to the care of my home state.