Providers
Ming Li Tsang, M.D.
Dr. Ming Tsang Credential:
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Speaks English, Chinese Cantonese and Mandarin
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Board Certified, Family Medicine
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10 Years of Experience
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Worked at St Francis, SF
Bio:
My desire to become a physician began at an early age when I was still living in China. My mother was working in a hospital; she would take me to work with her and the hospital became my playground. I saw so many patients suffering from pains and injuries and these experiences had a profound effect on me: I wished that someday I, too, would be able to help the sick and injured.
After I graduated from Jinan University Medical College, Guangzhou, China, I obtained a masters degree in Medical Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. I then spent 4 years in New York City working as a research fellow at two prestigious medical institutions: The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and The Rockefeller University’s Department of Cellular Physiology and Immunology. My main focus was in virology and immunology related to HIV research and, as a result, I published many research papers. I next began a family medicine residency program at the Aultman Hospital, Canton, Ohio, where I gained great experience with patients. My experiences caring for patients and helping them toward recoveries reinforced my desire to dedicate my life to work as a physician.
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Since then, I’ve been practicing medicine in San Francisco. I am fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin, and I do home visits and house calls to elderly Chinese patients whose physical and language barriers often prevent them from seeking necessary medical care. I established my own practice so that I can spend more quality time with my patients and focus more on disease prevention. My extensive knowledge in HIV research helps me greatly in my treatment of HIV infected patients.
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As I continue to practice medicine in my clinic, I realized that a good physician not only must gain clinical knowledge and master technical skills, who also must listen intently to his patients’ needs and engage them in the medical decision-making process. He must travel their life journey with them. To do this, he must be non-judgmental, respectful, and empathetic to what his patients are going through. I believe the true art of medicine requires the healing of not just patients’ physical wellbeing, but their souls as well.
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The child whose playground was a hospital has grown up to find his calling: to be a physician dedicated to alleviating others’ suffering.