Wong Edward K MD

He is a great Doctor with a lot of wisdom.

We met Dr. Wong at the emergency room of Good Samaritan hospital after bringing in my 85-​year-​old father-​in-​law with a fever. As the primary caregiver, I have been through many emergency visits and hospital stays with both of my in-​laws, and I have to say that Dr. Wong was the absolute worst in terms of communication and likeability. He introduced himself only to my father-​in-​law and ignored my presence, asking my father-​in-​law detailed questions about his life history, even though my father-​in-​law would turn to me for some of the answers. We had never been through such extensive questions on any of our previous visits. When he kept asking him how long he lived in California and when did he come here, or did he come through Texas or New York, even though we told him, I finally went out and asked an aide if he was a real doctor! He was not wearing a lab coat or an ID tag, and he didn’t act like all the other doctors we knew, who would realize that my father-​in-​law was not in good health and sometimes confused.
My father-​in-​law ended up being admitted with pneumonia. I tried to get information as to how bad it was or what the prognosis was and he was extremely unhelpful. Normally, doctors share the results of all the tests, and we had to get all that information from the nurse (who, by the way, was a complete angel and the only bright part of the stay). When my father-​in-​law complained that he hadn’t met the doctor, he said that Dr. Wong confronted him about it, asking him if he didn’t remember meeting him the night before (when he was sick and running a fever). My father-​in-​law tried to be nice to him after that, because he wanted to go home. Dr. Wong made rounds late in the day and I never could catch him. When he came late in the day to discharge my father-​in-​law, he again totally ignored me, even when my father-​in-​law introduced me. I felt he was totally rude and arrogant. My father-​in-​law said he will never go back to Good Samaritan again, and I could not agree more.