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Cure for the body, care for the heart and mind
WHILE health care specialists labor toward curing cancer (which causes 13 percent of all human deaths, according to a 2006 World Health Organization report), the vital thing that would have a greater impact on the lives of cancer patients and their families is supportive mental and emotional therapy, expressed through love and care. One health care specialist who strives to give both to his cancer patients— cure and care—is oncologist and hematologist, Dr. Eduardo Lim. One of only two Filipino-American oncologists in the whole of Southern California, Dr. Lim is an outstanding physician who understands that cancer often brings with it a host of distressing symptoms such as anxiety, fear and depression. Providing adequate relief from such distress, however, is not the norm among health care providers, says a new report from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine’s National Cancer Policy Board. But Dr. Lim had made it his life’s mission to provide "TLC—tender loving care" to all his patients, knowing it will greatly affect not only the treatment of their disease but vastly improve the quality of their day-today lives and the chances for remission and life extension.
Born in Cavite on April 1, 1957, Dr. Eduardo Lim is a magna cum laude graduate from the University of the Philippines, where he took up Medicine. He came to the United States in 1984 for further training at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago. After his residency at Cook County, Lim got an offer to work in West Virginia. After a few years, he went back to Chicago where he stayed for six years. In 2002, the Fil-Am oncologist decided to pack up his bags and leave Chicago to move to Los Angeles. "The weather in Chicago was so depressing—always gray... you hardly see the sun. So, I moved to sunny California," explained the cheery doctor. "Besides, my only relatives in the US live here in the West—an aunt in Eagle Rock and an uncle in Las Vegas," added Lim.
The second of 8 children, Lim admits that his parents infl uenced him to be a doctor, but it is a mentor in Chicago, a lady oncologist who inspired him to be a cancer doctor. "She was so compassionate with cancer patients, knowing they need a lot of tender loving care. And I felt I can do that too. I saw doctors who are quite cold with their patients. But, I’m a people person. I can connect with people. I’m very positive and warm, very responsive. So, I thought, oncology is one fi eld where I can give back to the Lord. I’m a very happy person and I try to impart positive energy and attitude to my patients, which is what they direly need," explained Lim with a happy smile.
Now on his 18th year as an oncologist, Dr. Lim is one of the top cancer doctors in St. Vincent’s Medical Center and several other hospitals in LA. Almost half of his patients are Filipinos, who come to his St. Vincent’s clinic in LA from as far as Palm Springs and San Diego.
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