In one fairly typical encounter, a father asked his eight-year-old son five times to please go take a bath or a shower.

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They said he was asked about his father, about growing up the son of a Pentecostal preacher, and about criticism he has received for his faith.

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His father said he was woken at 3am by a text message from his son, who asked him to call him.

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Mr. Wong's father had long worried about his son's sanity, according to press reports, and asked a judge not to issue him a gun license, garnering him local sympathy.

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His decision to rely on paper charts was often a source of embarrassment to his son, a one-time health IT consultant, whenever clients asked him what kind of electronic health record his father used.

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