Dr. Hannah B. Sahud, MD

Dr. Hannah has always been a blast and a joy to have as our doctor! I'm requesting her as our PCP for our son since our experiences for our daughter have been nothing but pleasant!

Wonder full place want her because we love DR Hannah b . Sahud

If I could give her zero stars I would. Do not take your child to be seen by this women! I still have nightmares about my experience. I have never left a negative review of someone before, however I do not want any other families to have the experience I had. If leaving this review will help someone else I feel it is my responsibility to do so. My experience with Dr. Hannah occurred as a follow up to an emergency care visit for my daughter due to a fall. 11 days following my initial emergency visit I was scheduled to have a follow up with Dr. Hannah. To make a story short, Dr. Hannah inspected my daughter and found a tiny little bruise on her arm. She talked directly to my baby (as if she could understand her, and I was not in the room) and said "i hope no one is hurting you at home" then told me "I hope this baby has a bleeding disorder". What sort of a Dr. tells a mother that she hopes she has a bleeding disorder, because I could not come up with an answer for a tiny bruise?

[To give you a little better understanding of the environment I was in please read the following: first: I did not realize I was going to be under question during my visit. second: I just finished xrays that I thought were just of one place on her body and ended up being a full body scan (of which the baby was screaming and hurting from the straps holding her down, and I was not asked if I wanted her to have a full body scan, I felt like I did not have the option) Dr. Hannah is talking about the possibillity of somone taking my daughter from me. And that because she has a little bruise on her arm that I can not explain that I was going to be reported!]

I was terrified and crying, apologizing for not knowing what the bruise could be from. But my mind is also racing and I am not able to think at all. I asked if there were any options I had that would not involve her reporting us to CYS? I tried to explain that she is safe and loved. She said if I returned to the emergency room and would go through some additional tests and scans then she would hold off on reporting anything until a staff meeting the next day.

The short story is that she lied.

While in the emergency room and while explaining to the Nurse Practitioner my concerns I had for my baby being hooked up to an IV, I realized that the bruise on her arm was one of the 5 places they tried to get an IV from her during the emergency visit the 11 days before. I starting ugly crying in relief because the bruise was from the hospital. It was even verified that it was recorded in her file as the location of the final IV draw. If Dr. Hannah had done her due diligence and read the file she would have known that it was her hospital that created that bruise she was condemning me for!!! She had given me her card and so I immediately called her number overjoyed that all of this could be behind us! She told me on the phone that it was to late she already called in the report. And once she called it in she can't take it back. I said you told me you would not call it in until the next day! She said she still would have reported it regardless.

I was heartbroken, lied to, manipulated, and afraid.

All the staff in the emergency room was wonderful and confirmed that this was a misunderstanding and that all would be well recorded. CYS showed up and said they were not worried. But I still had to receive visits to my house, my other children were questioned, and I had 6 months of they can show up at anytime and take the children fear. After another visit at the end of six months it was labeled unfounded.

But the point is that parents have enough stress trying to be the best parent they can, and A DR whose goal is to report families, not see the truth should not be working for the Pittsburgh children's hospital. She only needed to read a chart to know the problem. She did not. She only needed to tell the truth. She did not. Then when she called after the fact to "apologize" about it, she simply decided to deny the lie and say she still would have done it again.