- Was nominated to be Valedictorian at Academy of Art.
- Went to film school while still was in medical training.
- Has MD and MFA in screenwriting.
- Told mom on first day of medical school that he wanted to be a screenwriter. Almost quit medical school to go to film school.
- Nickname in the hospital is Doogie because looks very young.
- While parents were dropping him off to college, they saw a sign that read "City of Medicine" and encouraged him to be a doctor.
- Was the only Asian in his class in elementary school and high school.
- Majored in math in college.
- Went to the the first medical school to accept women into medicine.
- After getting rejected early decision from Stanford, sister encouraged him to apply to Duke and ended up going there.
- Has provided story lines for medical television shows, including Grey's Anatomy, The Resident, and The Good Doctor.
- Father passed away from leukemia barely one month into medical school and almost quit medical school because of it.
- Knew Ali Curtis in college, who won the Herman trophy and who is now a manager for a MLS team in Canada.
- Was taught in film school by Ken Estin, showrunner for Cheers.
- Taught by Robert Keats, who wrote for Happy Days and The Love Boat.
- Was taught by Julie Oxendale in screenwriting during film school, who worked with Danny Boyle.
- Met Amy Holden Jones, producer of The Resident and writer for Beethoven, on Facebook and ended up helping her with some storylines on the show.
- The lead medical consultant on The Good Doctor often runs most infectious disease storylines by him to make sure it's credible and works for the show because he's an infectious disease specialist and both went to Duke.
- The place where he works as a physician was where they filmed One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, which is about Electroconvulsive therapy, something he researched extensively in college at Duke.
- Went to catholic school all his life before college.
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