Specialty Emergency Medicine Facility Roseville Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine Address 1600 Eureka Road Roseville CA 95661 Telephone (916) 784-5380 E-mail your doctor View your preventive services

My Profession

As an Emergency Physician, I diagnose and treat conditions resulting from sudden illness or injury. I see pediatric, geriatric patients and everyone in between. I am also here in case you can not reach your doctor or obtain care anywhere else.

My Credentials

Medical school	UC Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA
Residency	William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
Board certification	Emergency Medicine, American Board of Emergency Medicine

My Practice

I work at both the Roseville and Morse Avenue emergency departments. I usually spend more time in Roseville because I live in the area. In a typical day, I see about 15-18 patients in 10 hours, ranging from a simple sore throat to severely ill patients with multiple medical problems--and every now then, I resuscitate people.

My Practice Philosophy

Emergency medicine is probably the only specialty where on a daily basis, a couple of minutes can mean the difference between life and death. I try to be efficient, work fast and see the sickest people first. But no matter how sick you are, you will get the best and most thorough care from me. A mentor once told me: "treat every patient as if he or she were a member of your family." That, in short, is my practice philosophy.

My Tenure With Kaiser Permanente

I came to Kaiser Permanente in 1999, right out of residency. Having gone to school and worked in Northern california since 1988, this was coming home for me. I have known the Kaiser system first as a patient then as a medical student at UC Davis; I was ecstatic when the opportuniy became available to join TPMG.

Why I Like Practicing Medicine at Kaiser Permanente

At Kaiser, we have vast resources available to us. As ED physician, I only see patients briefly; it is important to me that my patients have good follow-up care. No where else that I know of that can book follow-up appointments directly from the ER. The organizations has made tremendous improvements in providing access to specialized care. Most of all, we have a great group of people in the ED. I enjoy coming to work everyday.

My Personal History

Occasionally, the ER gets so busy and hectic that I tell people, "this is starting to look like a refugee camp." I should know. I came from one. My family came from Viet-Nam as part of the "boat people" wave; that was 24 years ago, so I am not that fresh-off-the-boat anymore. I went to high school and college in Ohio, moved to California, worked for a while, then attended UC Berkeley and UC Davis. I am married and have three children.

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