New York Urgent Care

Medical Director: Thomas J. Bolte, M.D.

141 East 55th Street, Suite 8-H, New York, NY  10022   USA Manhattan New York City midtown east, East 55th Street between Lexington & 3rd Avenues.  Open weekdays, Saturday and Sunday.

Doctor Thomas Bolté is medical director of New York Urgent Care and Bolte Medical Urgent Care Center nyc.  His Internal Medicine internship and residency were performed at New York Downtown Hospital in downtown Manhattan, New York City, where he also received post-graduate training as Chief Administrative Resident.  Doctor Bolte practices comprehensive integrated medicine to diagnose rare and unusual disease.  While working in various urgent care centers, emergency rooms, multi-specialty medical clinics and an HMO, his traditional medical training extended onto alternative medicine, working with Doctor Robert Atkins, Doctor Serafina Corsello and Doctor Leo Galland.  He continues to expand his knowledge in alternative, nutritional and environmental medicine, mind-body-soul concepts of Doctor Carl Jung, and incorporates them to his medical practice.  Physicians often refer difficult-to-diagnosis, difficult-to-treat chronically ill patients to Doctor Bolte when a comprehensive approach is required for diagnosis of unusual illness and disease.

Doctor Bolte's areas of expertise include intestinal disorders, parasitic infections, Celiac Disease, malabsorption, maldigestion, mercury toxicity and other heavy metal disorders, chronic yeast infections, dietary guidance, detoxification and treatment of environmental allergies.

Doctor Bolte has worked as an Emergency Room ER attending and urgent care physician since 1992 throughout New York State.  He is a member of the medical advisory committee of Renaasance Medica founded by Doctor Liam Moore, a first-of-its-kind medical center day hospital in Naas, County Kildaire, Ireland.  He has advised nutriceutical companies as a scientic advisory board member on optimal nutritional supplement formulations.  Doctor Bolte has worked alongside Doctor Leo Galland (founder of the Foundation for Integrated Medicine) since 1995 and the late Doctor Robert Atkins at the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine from 1996 to 1998.  He has incorporated dietary and nutritional approaches to weight loss and nutritional optimization, including low-carb diets such as the Atkins Diet and Zone Diet, as well as low-fat approaches presented by Doctor Julian Whitaker and Doctor Dean Ornish.

Which Diet Is Right For You ?

There is always controversy concerning what diet is best:  Based on biochemical individuality, there's no specific diet which all should follow.  A recent study linked high fat diets and type-2 diabetes, though I have witnessed many type-2 diabetics attain normal glucose levels after following the Atkins Diet, without pharmaceuticals to control hyperglycemia.  One has to fine-tune the health of a patient using various dietary approaches.

Doctor Bolte's philosophy of medicine:

Doctor Atkins has always been a subject of criticism, though he was a firm believer of primum non nocere, i.e., to help, or at least do no harm.  More information on Doctor Bolte's philosophy of medical approach to illness can be found on his webpage.  The physician has traditionally been at the hub of health care delivery, and worked as a comprehensivist (as opposed to the "specialist.")  As control of health care continues to move into the non-medical sector, the importance of an open but skeptic mind should continue to have a voice in the ethics of medicine and its method of delivery.  All voices (medical and non-medical) should be heard.  And patient empowerment to wellness through physician ethical navigation should never be lost.

Doctor Bolte's Hotel House Call Practice

Doctor Bolte's nyc physician house call service operates as a new york travel clinic for local midtown manhattan residents, hotel guests and the busy New Yorker unable to leave home, office, movie set, photo shoot or theatre, who seek to avoid New York City travel, or need a quick after-hours full service nyc medical house call.

Doctor Bolte provides physician-supervised urgent care patient-escort service for patients requiring urgent care medical attention during travel, and has accompanied patients in guarded condition for air flights from the USA to other countries, and urgent medical care during patient-stay abroad.

Doctor Bolte uses both conventional (mainstream / allopathic) medicine and alternative approaches to treatment of illness.  Nutritional, environmental and dietary recommendations will accompany one's treatment plan (preventive medicine), for the purpose of preventing chronic and recurrent illness, and re-evaluations.

Doctor Bolte's Hotel house call practice provides 24 hour doctor housecalls in midtown Manhattan NYC area to home, business or hotel.  Physician house calls are generally covered under most travel health insurance plans.