David W Chui MD

Wish I could give 0 stars. I was referred to Dr. Chui and called to schedule an appointment. The medical assistant was very rude on the phone and left me on hold for 15 minutes after grilling me on several questions. I called back and the receptionist left me on hold for another 15 minutes. I will NEVER visit this unprofessional medical office ever! I will call my primary care physician and request another referral ASAP!

HIGHLY DO NOT RECOMMEND. I wish I had read these Unilocal reviews before I saw Dr. Chui since my problems with him seem to be a common theme. I was referred to him from Apple’s health facility for stomach pains and met with Dr. Chui, who was polite and seemed competent. He recommended a Colonoscopy, which now seems really extreme considering we could have just done an X-​ray. I did the procedure and the entire time wanted to walk out but I had already consumed the sodium chloride pre-​procedure so didn’t want to redo it. Overall, the facility was dirty, incredibly packed, everyone seemed rushed and I felt like they rushed through my procedure. The nurses spoke broken English and we were stacked in a room hospital bed to hospital bed. I liken the experience to an afternoon in NYC’s Chinatown. Anyway, afterwards he could not see me for a month for my follow up and the medicine he prescribed was causing me extreme stomach pain and dehabilitating cramps. I called three times without having anyone from his office return my calls the week after my surgery. When I finally got the receptionist on the phone, they just said to try something over the counter and I was still not able to talk to the doctor about my reactions. I cancelled all follow ups at that point and am now seeing another physician.

Pl. use this doc with great caution. Based on 2 experiences (one just now and one 4 yrs ago), he’ll see you at first, usually schedule an endoscopy and/​or colonoscopy (equivalent to surgeon operation) but then loses interest in talking to you/​further office visits/​medication adjustments, when you call him back to say the problems are not going away.
This time, I am suffering for 10 WEEKS. I ended up in ER again after his meds and endoscopy and the ER said «pl. stop coming here, we can only stabilize you — go to your GI to get diagnosis». When I called his office, desperate for another office visit and further diagnosis, the staff rudely said «he will get in touch with you if he feels it is necessary for you to talk or to have another office visit or to adjust medication». He never called back.
Desperate for a solution (round the clock gas, nausea, unable to drive to work, felt like I was going to die) I got referred to an intestinal specialist at Stanford who is prescribing some tests and will continue looking /​testing until the root cause is found.
When I informed his office that I was getting a second opinion and further diagnosis from a Stanford doctor, I immediately got a letter from the doctor saying I’ve been terminated and can no longer see him and will be happy to forward my records to the Stanford doctor.
I feel that is a bit unprofessional and also refusing to accept that he was unsure of what my problem was (Nexium wasn’t going to fix it) and unwilling to admit it and unwilling to proactively refer me to other specialists. Isn’t it common for a doctor to say «I’m not sure what is wrong with you, let me refer you to an intestinal specialist because the endoscopy was clear»?
Disappointed but also scared because I have something currently undiagnosed and doctor apparently refused to talk to me and one can only assume that is a form of giving up.

My experience with dr. chui has been great. I needed an endoscopy. My Mother has also been a patient — for a colonoscopy. Both of us had ended up in the emergency room and we were so happy when they called Dr. Chui to treat us. We’ve been working with him for about 5 years now and he has kept us both in good health ever since. Very caring doctor. I would not have any other Doctor now.

Patient BE VERY CAREFUL if you chose this Doctor !!!
My husband had life threatening condition back in Jan. 2010, which his stomach has paralyzed due to unknown reason. His weight was dropped from 185 to 145 within 3 weeks of time, he deteriorated very quickly due to the fact he cannot eat at all. Dr. Chui was the specialist we chose at that time, and after the endoscopy, he saw undigested food in my husband stomach after more than 16 hours of fasting. He was not able to diagnose him with anything, or even seems concerned with what he saw, he insisted to schedule a colonoscopy in 5 days, unfortunately, we end up canceled it before the colonoscopy taken place as my husband got into very dangerous & critical condition, and checked into emergency at Stanford hospital, later diagnosed with life threatening condition called: Gastroparisis, which took him a full year to recover. Dr. Chui has failed to diagnose him and delayed his treatment. However, this simply shows his professional skill is lacking, and many doctor can fail diagnose on patient, which is not the real problem we have with this doctor. In fact, we have never complaint about it .
This year, when we called his office to schedule a routine colonoscopy exam, we were told by his office staff that: Dr. Chui refuse to see my husband as patient, because we have canceled the colonoscopy two years ago and went to Stanford hospital instead ! (Yeah, sure, if we did not, my husband would have died at his care !)
I do not know what professional conscience & ethic or principles Dr. Chui is following to come up with judgment & decision as such, but we are certainly feel VERY BLESSED that he refuse to see us and allow us to experience his professional ethic, so our best interest is not going to be compromised again.
It will be a true misfortune to be under his care knowing how big of ego he bares for himself, and how little he care about his patient !