Phong Viet Vu, MD

I was unfortunate to run into this doctor at the ER at Memorial Hermann Hospital at Memorial City. He is such an unexperienced pediatrician that does not know how to talk to parents about children’s health. My son was 9 months when we encountered this doctor and we were at the ER because our pediatrician sent us due to high fevers for five days in a row.
My pediatrician sent me to the ER with a note for the on call doctor (which happened to be Dr. Phong) letting him know my son’s health issues and her hypothesis and requesting some blood work and urine work. He completely discredited what my doctor’s assumptions about his illness, made comments about how ridicule it was that she had sent me to the ER but as my son’s fever didn’t breaking despite the medicine he was receiving, he started throwing out to me many possible reasons why my son was so ill. He used all of this medical jargon that make no sense to a lay person until he loosely mentioned it could be Sepsis. I reacted to that because I happen to know what that is. He ran so many tests that made no sense before finally admitting my son into the hospital.
It is sad that individuals such as Dr. Phong that know nothing about a parent’s degree of worry with a sick child go into pediatrics. Maybe the day that this youngster has kids then he will be able to empathize with this the love and worry that a parent can feel when their kid is sick. I would definitely discourage anyone thinking about consulting this doctor to even try. He does not deserve having your son or daughter as a patient.