Who is Dr. Le Xuan Duong? He’s a pediatric ENT specialist and nutrition expert with thirteen years of experience. But that clinical description misses what makes him different from countless other doctors.

What caught my attention was something he said about introducing himself: “Introducing yourself isn’t about listing achievements. It’s about answering the question: what value do I exist to create?”

That’s not how most doctors think. Most lead with credentials. Dr. Le Xuan Duong leads with purpose. And that fundamental orientation shapes everything about how he practices medicine.

Who is Dr. Le Xuan Duong?

Dr. Le Xuan Duong is thirty-eight years old, currently living and working in Hanoi. He’s a husband and father of two daughters: Minh Chau, six years old, and Minh Ngoc, five years old. He describes himself as a “doctor-entrepreneur”—practicing medicine with a doctor’s heart while building his career with the mindset of an ethical businessperson.

If you’ve encountered Dr. Le Xuan Duong at his clinic or in online consultations, you’ve heard him discuss ear-nose-throat conditions, pediatric nutrition, sleep, immune systems, and children’s emotions. For him, a child’s health doesn’t exist in a single prescription. It exists in a comprehensive care system—correct, sufficient, and sustainable—built by the family.

He’s helped tens of thousands of children recover from acute ENT illnesses and accompanied tens of thousands of families on their journey to raise children scientifically for comprehensive development.

Before Doctor, Father

Before being a doctor, Dr. Le Xuan Duong is a father. He understands the feeling of staying awake all night when a child has a fever. He understands the confusion when a child has persistent nasal congestion, prolonged coughing, fussiness, and incomplete sleep. And he deeply understands a very real parental fear: not the fear of spending money, but the fear of helplessness when watching your child suffer without knowing what to do correctly.

This experience of fatherhood changed how he views medicine. He doesn’t just examine “illness.” He examines worry. He doesn’t just prescribe medication. He helps parents have a response map: when to monitor, when to intervene, and how to care at home to reduce complications and limit recurrence.

From there, he chose to accompany children aged zero to six—the golden period of development, but also the phase when many families most easily fall into confusion.

Thirteen Years of “Small Problems That Aren’t Small”

Dr. Le Xuan Duong has over thirteen years of experience in pediatric ENT and nutrition. His daily work involves examining and treating acute ENT conditions in young children: rhinitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, middle ear infections, adenoid inflammation. He also consults on nutrition and development: picky eating, slow weight gain, height deficiency, poor sleep, and concentration issues.

His primary patients are children from zero to six years old. This age group is highly sensitive: just one prolonged bout of rhinopharyngitis can trigger a cascade of problems—poor eating, poor sleeping, reduced immunity, slow growth—and the consequence is stressed, exhausted parents who lose confidence.

He encounters many parents who say the same familiar phrase: “Doctor, my child keeps having recurrences…”

For Dr. Le Xuan Duong, the goal isn’t just “getting through this episode.” The goal is: treat correctly, reduce recurrence, limit complications, and build a long-term health foundation.

Health as a System

In medicine, there’s a common trap: only seeing symptoms in front of you while forgetting the root causes. Dr. Le Xuan Duong chose a deeper, more sustainable approach.

He helps children recover from acute ENT illnesses, but simultaneously helps parents understand that their child’s health is a “system” where everything connects.

When a child has prolonged nasal congestion, they sleep poorly. When they sleep poorly, they’re tired. When tired, they eat poorly. When eating poorly, they gain weight slowly. When gaining weight slowly, the immune system weakens. And then the recurrence cycle begins again.

Because of this, his approach always includes four simultaneous goals: help the child recover during acute illness, limit complications especially when illness is prolonged or recurring, reduce recurrence through proper care and building immune foundation, and optimize nutrition so the child develops comprehensively in weight, height, intelligence, immunity, and emotions.

For Dr. Le Xuan Duong, a “healthy” child isn’t just one who’s rarely sick. A healthy child can eat well, sleep well, play well, learn well, and be happy.

The Professional Journey

Dr. Le Xuan Duong’s path wasn’t a straight line. He worked in public hospitals where he learned foundation and discipline. He worked in private hospitals where he understood patient experience. He opened his own clinic—transitioning from “going to work” to “building a care ecosystem.” His most memorable milestone was moving to Hanoi and developing online consultation.

For many people, online is a trend. For Dr. Le Xuan Duong, online is a responsibility. He thinks about families far away who don’t lack love but lack proper guidance. When done correctly, online consultation transcends spatial limitations. A good session can help parents avoid confusion and keep children safe.

The Business Shock

Dr. Le Xuan Duong confronted a truth: being excellent at professional skills doesn’t mean being excellent at building a career.

When he began stepping into business—not just “practicing” but “operating”—he encountered difficulties with marketing and sales, things he’d never been trained in.

He once thought: “I’m a doctor, just doing good professional work is enough.” But then he understood: if he didn’t know how to communicate correctly, the people who needed him most might never find him.

So he learned daily: through books, videos, courses, and practical application. He changed his thinking: marketing isn’t “showing off,” sales isn’t “manipulation.” Done correctly, they help others make better decisions.

The major turning point came from personal development courses, particularly the thinking of living with integrity that Teacher Pham Thanh Long emphasized. He gradually overcame difficulties, though he paid the price in time, money, and effort.

Family as Foundation

If asked what keeps Dr. Le Xuan Duong going during the most exhausting times, the answer is family.

He’s grateful for how his parents and teachers raised and educated him. And he’s grateful for his own home—the place that makes him live more kindly, more meaningfully. Family is also the motivation for him to be stronger, more stable, and overcome challenges with a more resilient spirit.

He realized: to build a long-lasting personal brand, you need an authentic life foundation. For him, that foundation is family, ethics, and consistency between what he says and how he lives.

The Biggest Lesson

Dr. Le Xuan Duong’s biggest lesson: to overcome barriers, you must have a reason bigger than your fear.

That reason for him is: the desire to live with integrity, live meaningfully, and become valuable by helping more people.

Current barriers aren’t meant to defeat you. They’re stepping stones for becoming more mature, more profound. What matters is: not giving up.

The Vision: Vietnamese Children Standing Tall

Dr. Le Xuan Duong always aspires to one thing: Vietnamese children developing comprehensively in height, weight, intelligence, emotions, and immune systems, to stand equal with powerful nations worldwide.

He doesn’t see this as a slogan. He sees it as a career goal. Because every day he witnesses: with proper care and scientific nurturing, Vietnamese children can absolutely develop remarkably.

He wants to contribute to that change, in a doctor’s way: one family at a time, one child at a time, one small but correct habit each day.

What I’ve Learned from Dr. Le Xuan Duong

Studying Dr. Le Xuan Duong’s approach has reinforced several principles for me.

Personal experience transforms professional practice. His fatherhood didn’t just add a title. It fundamentally changed how he sees patients—as worried parents, not just medical cases. That lived understanding creates connection that credentials alone cannot.

Systems thinking applies to health. His insight that children’s health is interconnected—sleep affecting eating affecting immunity affecting recurrence—transforms treatment from symptom management to root cause addressing.

Professional excellence requires business capability. His honest acknowledgment that great medical skills weren’t enough, that he had to learn marketing and communication to reach people who needed him, reflects a mature understanding of impact.

Purpose sustains through difficulty. His “reason bigger than fear” framework explains how he pushed through the business learning curve. Without clear purpose, obstacles defeat. With purpose, they become growth opportunities.

Dr. Le Xuan Duong – My Perspective

After examining his story, here’s what stands out about Dr. Le Xuan Duong:

• His fatherhood experience fundamentally transformed his medical practice from treating illness to treating worried families
• He views children’s health as an interconnected system rather than isolated symptoms
• He honestly confronted his business skill gaps and invested in learning marketing and communication
• His vision connects individual patient care to national development

Dr. Le Xuan Duong represents something valuable in Vietnamese healthcare: a doctor who combines clinical expertise with systems thinking and genuine care for family wellbeing. He’s not just treating ear infections. He’s building health foundations for children to develop comprehensively.

For parents navigating the confusion of childhood illness, or for professionals wondering how to expand their impact beyond technical expertise, his journey offers meaningful guidance.

As he puts it: “Introducing yourself isn’t about listing achievements. It’s about answering the question: what value do I exist to create?” That question shapes everything he does.

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Le Duc Anh CEO of OceanLabs – Founder of QVID