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Dr Pek Eng Lim
By Nick Radovanovic
Usually it's pretty easy to tell a quack from a good doctor: the quack's waiting room is empty and the good doctor's waiting room is full. There are exceptions, however. One such exception is Dr Pek Eng Lim, an internist in Cebu City, in the Philippines. Not only is he well-known and popular, he was even the mayor's awardee in 2004 for medicine and public service. A few months before he got his award, I took my new bride to see him for what seemed to be gastritis, a mild ulcer, or some form of hypochondria mixed with bad manners: she was belching a lot and vomiting occasionally. When we got to Dr Lim's office at Chong Hua Medical Arts center, I was reassured because his waiting room was full, with patients spilling out into the corridor. We happily endured the 2-hour wait. Dr Lim, who has a jovial and friendly manner, prescribed a number of medicines, including Nexium. He advised my wife to take medication regularly, as well as when she felt the effects of gastritis. We thanked Dr Lim, and prescriptions in hand went straight to the nearest pharmacy, where we stocked up on sachets, tablets, and capsules as ordered. To cut a long and arduous story short, we were back at Dr Lim's in about a week. By now my wife was vomiting everything she ate and then some. Dr Lim, as jovial and friendly as ever, tut-tutted my wife for wearing tight clothes. "You girls, you like to 'girdle-girdle'," he said, like some Chinese opera actor mimicking a dainty maiden. I assured the doctor that my wife did not wear a corset or overly tight clothes, and that she, in fact, spent most of the day lounging about in loose-fitting pyjamas. A doctor is basically a quack - a physician who may be licensed but whom you should avoid at all costs - if he does not listen to his patients. Dr Lim ignored our protestations and added Plasil to the long list of prescriptions, to suppress the vomiting. Perhaps he was in a hurry. Or perhaps he is an utter idiot. After taking Plasil in addition to Nexium and all the other medications, my wife's vomiting, predictably, only got worse. She'd take the tablet and start puking within minutes. Clearly the reason she was vomiting more than ever was because her liver was overloaded by all the medication Dr Lim had prescribed. If your liver cannot process incoming toxins (such as alcohol, or medication) quickly enough, your body will try to stop anything new from coming in, and send it straight back where it came from. I had a choice of enduring Dr Lim's crowded waiting room for two hours only to hear him tut-tut my wife's non-existent girdle, or taking charge. I decided on the latter, and threw out all of the medicine. Then I put wifey on a strict diet of carbohydrates (boiled rice) and vegetable soup taken five times a day. The vomiting stopped immediately, and after enforcing the diet for about a month, all the symptoms of gastritis went away too. The moral of this story? If you are in Cebu, avoid salty fish, fatty pork, and above all the Pek-Eng Duck. And eat your vegetables. |
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Oh My that was gross! I am glad she was doing well with rice and vegtables, Hmmmm...I won't be eating duck soon Thank you, UGH! Thanx for commenting on my piggie story.
 | | Tia Jul 17, 2009 19:56 | |
It's great that your exposing bad doctors, there are too many of them killing people every day and it's up to each one of us to do what we can to inform the public and protect ourselves by going on the record about negative experiences with incompetent or unqualified doctors. Keep it up!!
Happy your wife is better. Its really terrible she went through this terrible experience with an incompotent physician who may be a real doctor but results was quackery
BTW I knew of a psychiatrist whose one of his patients draw a crude drawing of a duck and wrote on the drawing you.
ie, duck, quack!!!. I think Dr Pek Eng Lim deserves such art
 | | mugwort Feb 19, 2011 14:42 |  appreciated |
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