Dr. Edward K. Tsai is a Doctor of Osteopathy specializing in Family Practice.
I like Dr. Tsai, his office, and his staff.
Dr. Tsai's modest office is well maintained and staffed. It's small. For me, that's good. He is one doctor..not a group of doctors. One doctor that treats one patient at a time. What a *novel* concept.
He is proactive and conversational about treatment and diagnosis options. I discussed several different alternatives with him. Dr. Tsai helped me set up an "at my leisure" blood panel with a popular phlebotomy lab so that I could make my appointment for an annual physical when it was convenient and the results could be reviewed.
Dr. Tsai maintains client records electronically. With the exception of the first battery of bubble-check in processing paperwork, Dr. Tsai keeps notes on his laptop during the visit.
Dr. Tsai and his staff actually took the time and "talked" with me. At the time, I lost my voice. I sounded like Wolfman Jack. But these people took the time to talk with me during my visit. Dr. Tsai and I joked about bacteria relating to antibiotics (in the specific example of an upper respiratory infection of which I was suffering) ... Dr. Tsai said bacteria mutate and adapt to compensate for the attack of the antibiotic. I said that bacteria in that way were like the Borg, and Dr. Tsai related to me that he attended school at Pomona College for a period of time, right near the famed Oldenborg Center from where it is documented the name of Star Trek's "the Borg" was derived.
On my way out, I mentioned (in my Wolfman Jack raspiness) to one of the two young gals supporting Dr. Tsai as receptionist/practitioner/assistant that her coworker reminded me of an actress in a recent movie (Anna Kendrick starring opposite George Clooney and Vera Farmiga in "Up In The Air"). She related.
It is exactly those kinds of interactions that make a "Doctor-Patient Relationship", not a Cattle Call Assembly-Line Warehouse Rubber-Stamp Insurance Mill you might find at some of the more hideous examples of medical practice in the Las Vegas vally (coughYouEmmSeacough).