Van H Vu, MD

My daughter went to see Dr. Vu in hopes of getting some pain relief from a botched knee surgery that was performed by one of Dr. Vu’s colleagues. She was treated like a felon while she was there, and the Dr. gave her some medication and then said to her, and I’m quoting — «if this doesn’t help then you are SOL» meaning sh** out of luck.
This does not sound like a good caring doctor to me. For a doctor to even utter those words? Shame on him.

I know that Dr. Vu does good for his patients, because I am one of them. He helped me tremendously when I had bad neck pain. I like the fact that his office has all specialties in one location, so I wouldn’t have to run around town for other options. I can honestly say that when I was in his waiting room on about 6 or so occasions, I witnessed a a couple of patients being nasty and belligerent to his front desk — wow, kudos to his front desk staff. I can see how stressful it is to handle certain type of patients who are already angry and in pain, imagine if they did not take the proper dosage as prescribed, in addition of wanting more and more pills to ease their pain? When does the doctor decide who is really legitimately in pain, and when is the patient faking it, just to fulfill their addiction?
As for the gentlemen letting the article speak for itself comment below — (Luke W.) — If you believe everything you read and/​or hear on the news without doing further investigation yourself — then you definitely are a victim of buying into bad journalism without hearing both sides of the story. What if I gave a good friend tickets to Hawaii as a gift — so as to help him with his stress. On the flight over there, the plane crashes and he dies — so is it my fault now? Absurd —

I work with Dr. Vu MD and all I can say is that it’s been a pleasure working with him and the rest of his staff. He’s an excellent pain management doctor and shows genuine care for each one of his patients.

Pain management is a very difficult field. A lot of these patients are those that no other doctors wants to deal with and half of them are already addicted to these medications. These medications are very safe when they are used properly as prescribed. However when these patients abuse them or use them in combination with other medications the outcome can be deadly.
Perhaps some of these addicts and difficult patients should be turned away. However it takes a lot of gutts to take on some of these cases.