Yes, I believed another reviewer Ling Yang's suspect and/or been treated differently by Dr. Anh-Minh Phan. I was hugely shocked, after recently researched Dr. Longman(2022-2023), that he still practices, and Dr. Phan's Brightly Smile picture showed up on internet from their office!
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Yes, I believed another reviewer Ling Yang's suspect and/or been treated differently by Dr. Anh-Minh Phan. I was hugely shocked, after recently researched Dr. Longman(2022-2023), that he still practices, and Dr. Phan's Brightly Smile picture showed up on internet from their office!
Here is a long historical story in short: decades ago, in mid of 90s, I visited Dr. Longman's dental office after ended another visit with an internal doctor Dr. Chen in the same building, after moved to this DMV area. Since then, I decided to visit these two Drs in my planned regular health check-up in a long run.
I deeply remembered how kind and cordially Dr. Longman treated me, asked some questions surrounded my far-away hometown while cleaned my teeth. And evaluated my teeth then suggested me do a deep cleaning, with the bill only shy of maybe less $200! (Seemed insurance doesn't cover that time? I still keep that estimate till this day!). I didn't pay too much attention of it, and didn't do any researches on it (maybe in the era of inconvenience of non-use of internet?), so not do it immediately. But continued to visit Dr. Longman's office, however this last visit turned to be a very unpleasant experience, made me say a forever good-bye.
When I waited in the dental chair, a woman doctor walked in, with a very harsh and severe expression hanging on her face. From the beginning to the end of teeth exam and cleaning, I just felt so so uncomfortable.
Did she really not like or favor her own races, or the same gender? Or deeply disliked her own "chosen patients"? It confused me in decades.
I thought Dr. Longman was retired, and his office might have been turned over to this new woman doctor. Like the Dr. Chen did who retired then sold his one to Dr. Ho.
Therefore, I said GOOD BYE to myself, and to Dr. Longman's office here: sadly, I won't have any good dentist I could visit anymore!
After that, I visited quite a bit of other dental offices, none of them could compare to the Dr. Longman's great personal services.
In the end, I spent a few thousands cashes to do deep cleaning in other office decade later, and lost a few teeth, and even like this prior, I felt I never wanted going back to this woman dentist again, who " replaced "Dr. Longman!
Sadly, Dr. Longman, like Dr. Chen, was in my past memory seemed forever...! Bc I won't have such a good dentist and internist any more.
However to my shock, I discovered Dr. Phan, her BIG SMILING picture now in this modern internet era lately, after decades. And she COULD smile and seemed to be more RELAXED rather HARSH to her patients or her CHOSEN patients!?
Another shock, Dr. Longman still practices!?
Or my God, if I knew, I would demand Dr. Longman treated me rather others, and I would continue seeing him, then I won't lost thousands $s, and I would have my full mouth of teeth!
Above story will be in my collection of short stories. More to come including the great Dr. Chen and others which would be unspeakable but only could exist in short stories.