-: So, hi, I'm Roger Ang.
I am class, or one of college class of 1989.
Residency up with Kaiser Permanente in Hollywood,
and then I've been working at Kaiser Permanente Long Beach
ever since then, so I've been there for about 22 years now.
So I'm a physician there and I specialize
in primary care which is basically adult medicine,
and so I see patients from 18 and older,
in the clinic mostly, sometimes in a hospital setting,
sometimes in a urgent care setting,
but primarily in a outpatient clinic setting.
I work pretty much nine to five Monday through Friday.
And so I get in there, my clinic starts around nine o'clock
and I get in there a little bit before that.
I have a nurse that I work with and so I sit and talk to her
for a few minutes to kind of plan out our day.
And so my typical day will go
where I'll have about 20 to 22 patients on my schedule
and I have about 20 minutes to see each one of them,
that's what the schedule is and sometimes
it works out like that, sometimes not.
So everybody comes in with something different.
You got the patients who are young and healthy
coming in for a physical.
They generally don't need too much
and it takes them maybe 10 minutes or so.
You got the older ones who have a list of
their 20 medical problems and their 30 medicines they're on
and all the things they want to discuss,
and that can take sometimes up to an hour or so.
So it varies, and so the day is just varied.
I mean, like sometimes it goes really fast
because there's a lot of patients that are very easy
and then sometimes it's difficult.
You'll have patients who are really sick,
we end up having to call the ambulance
or put them in the hospital
or sometimes they just want to sit there and talk.
A lot of my older patients, who I have a lot of,
those are ones who mostly come in,
the ones who really want to just sit there and chit-chat
and talk to me and then kind of talk about
not just their health but also their personal lives, too.
I think that's one of the things
I really like about my job, also.
Then a lot of these patients, especially the older ones,
have multiple medical issues.
They have their heart problem, they have their lung problem,
they have the kidney problem, so we'll send them
to the different specialties, a heart specialist,
lung specialist, a kidney specialist,
and they'll all manage things,
but they'll find that a lot of the specialists end up
not really talking to each other
because they're so busy with their own practice
and they're so focused on their own organ system
that they don't really think, well, I'm a heart doctor
putting somebody on this heart medicine
and yet that's gonna affect the kidneys
and the kidney doctor's thinking
only about the kidneys, not the heart,
and kinda where I'm coming in, kinda coordinate everything.
Okay, you're on this heart medicine
that can affect your kidneys so make sure that, you know,
there's no bad interaction between the two,
and so it's a bit of directing between
the different specialties and kinda different medicines,
different procedures doing too.