One of the doctors in my neighborhood: Dr. Robert G. Aycock.
While perhaps hilarious for the prankster, I don’t think this speaks to any undesirable gullibility on the part of media. It’s more akin to people falling for clickbait ads from “satirical” websites that proclaim such edgy and subversive headlines like “Hillary Clinton quitting race for nomination!” than people falling for Onion headlines.
I should ask if you’re wondering what that giant whooshing sound is that you’re hearing. 
:eek: I should have known it was too good to be true. But if you can’t trust the BBC, whom can you trust?
Please don’t tell me gynecologist Dr. Harry Beaver isn’t real!
Urologist Dr. Dick Tapper most certainly is real, he did my cousin’s vasectomy.
How about Phat Phuc (happy Buddha) as a nice name?
I hear the natives pronounce Norfolk as Nawf’k.
The *New Scientist * has been chronicling such cases of nominative determinismfor over twenty years.
You could have trusted me. 
Unfortunately, I didn’t see this thread in time, but I called it out as implausible in several other places before it was revealed as a hoax. Bich is a common enough Vietnamese given name (mostly for females), but it’s not a surname. Now, if he’d gone with Phuc Dat Ho, I would have believed him.
Heh. 
Well, years ago, the insurance company I worked for had a Korean Client named “Yoo-suck Kim,” which isn’t much better.
Did the company have any agent named Kim?
I dunno, but Kim is like Smith in Korea, so he had a long line of takers.
That’s even understated, as 22% of Koreans are named Kim or it’s variants due to Romanization.
In Korea, they place the names the other way around, surname first. So people there would always be telling him “Kim Yoo-suck.”
Mediaite has a somewhat more detail report on this hoax, allegedly perpetrated by a certain Joe Carr, including a rather lengthy comment from Mr. Carr himself.
‘Phuc Dat’: Of Course Viral Story About Facebook Profile Was a Hoax.
The BBC article that kferr linked, above, seems to hint (hint, hint) that even that is questionable, as “Joe Carr” can also be read as a pun on “joker”.
snerk “Joe Carr” indeed. 
Dam Son, that’s quite a story.
Well, if that actually were his name, it would be another supporting case for Nominative Determinism. At this point, though, I’m not sure I’d believe him no matter what he said his name was.