Patrick Gan
I visited Dr. Tio during one of his visits to Manila, where he was holding sessions in Akesis Center in Quezon City. I had a highly unpleasant experience with Dr. Tio himself. It started as Dr. Tio asked me to lay on my back so he could check my neck. I was admittedly tense coming into the session, as everytime he raised my head to check my neck I couldn’t relax enough and my head would either follow the lifting motion or resist the lifting of Dr. Tio. Dr. Tio quickly became impatient and started muttering “you aren’t letting me help you” and “I don’t want your money if you will keep being like this.” Take note - I very patiently and gently apologized and told him I was making a conscious effort to relax and just to bear with me for a little longer. He asked to take a break and we resumed shortly after, and not even a minute into trying again he got visibly infuriated and asked me to leave because he can’t help me anymore. With my feelings being heightened at the time, I returned to Dr. David and told him I felt he was very rude to me, and he kept muttering the same line of me refusing to let me help him. It hadn’t even been a full 3 minutes inside the room and his demeanor towards me definitely didn’t help me relax either. I am sure he’s a great doctor with great technical skill, but I cannot fathom swearing an oath to better people’s lives and then creating such a hostile environment for his patients. Great doctors aren’t always great people.
