The State - News from Feb. 5, 1988

A Garden Grove woman trained as a doctor in Vietnam has been approved to practice medicine in California, ending her seven-year battle to prove to state officials that her education and training met U.S. standards. Le Dao, who has worked as an intern, resident and research assistant at the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center for more than five years, was approved by a special committee established through state legislation sponsored by Sen. Edward Royce (R-Anaheim). Dao and Tao Nguyen, another Vietnamese-trained physician who is working on a fellowship at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, were then also approved by a panel of the state Board of Medical Quality Assurance, said Kenneth J. Wagstaff, the board’s executive director.