Lam Albert Y MD Facs

Dr. Lam is a great doctor and surgeon!
If you want your Dr. to show up at your appointment time (and give you a no-​nonsense opinion, this is your guy! He’s also has years of experience and demonstrated success.

I had emergency surgery at a local hospital. I was told by the ER doc that there was a doc who had an opening for me (which is rare on a Monday). The staff reassured me he was top notch so I agreed. Dr. Lam came to see me in the ER and our family found him to be a very kind person. He immediately radiated confidence in his capabilities to start. After the surgery, he came to visit me in recovery and I thought he was articulate and sweet. And when the staff wheelchaired me out of the hospital, he commented that my doc was «excellent». I visited him post-​op and again, liked him very much. He has a kind disposition. If I ever have to have something cut out of me again, I hope he is available. (lol)He also has these perfect, small surgeon hands! haha. And get this… I waited 30 seconds to see him in his office! World record in my life time. I liked the guy. And my surgery was a success. That matters to me then holding my hand bed side.

Dr Lam performed a small biopsy surgery for our 20 year old daughter. She (and we) was very nervous before the initial consultation, but he was very professional and sensitive to her situation (taking me aside to explain to me what he believed we were looking at just in case she wasn’t ready to hear it). The surgery went very well, the incision very clean and closed perfectly. it’s healing up nicely and the scar will be minimal thanks to his skill and precision. This is especially important when the patient is 20 years old and the incision is very visible on the side of her neck.
I would have no hesitation about going back to him again.

Very poor bedside manners.
I recently had surgery with Dr. Lam. At the initial consultation, he only wanted to repair one of two sites that needed surgery being that one site was not bothering me (That should have been a red flag). I told him that since I was going under general anesthesia, I wanted both sites operated on. He said I would be in the hospital for 5 – 7 days, and I prepared accordingly.
When I arrived for surgery on Wednesday, I had been moved to outpatient surgery. Instead of keeping me in the hospital, he sent me home the same afternoon. By Friday, I had developed fever, chills, sweats, and my stomach was distended. I called his office at 8am Friday morning yet didn’t receive a call back. By 11am, I called again and finally received a call back. He said I needed to breathe and if the pain continued, he would call in a prescription of antibiotics on Monday. By Friday night the pain was so severe, that I ended up in the Emergency Room. After xrays and a CT scan, the ER doctor said I had a bowel obstruction and placed a NG tube through my nose to pump my stomach out. I ended up being in the hospital for 4 days. Dr. Lam still insisted there was no blockage contrary to what the ER doctor and the other tending doctors from my primary care doctors office were saying.
Two weeks later, I had to go back to him to get staples removed which at this point were extremely red and inflamed. He looked at them and said, «You should have had these taken out a week ago» and yet he was the one who set the staple removal date.
Overall he is very condescending and has poor bedside manners. I would never go back to him or recommend him to anyone!