Synopsis:

What My Patients Taught Me, and What I Want to Tell Them

When facing illness, everyone’s helplessness is the same, and the fear is the same.

The love of those around them can strengthen a patient’s will to live.

When you take that step into treatment and feel the pain is unbearable, please think of the people around you who love you, and do not forget that I am also right there ahead of you.

To me, medicine is not just about technology;

it is, more importantly, one story after another of wholehearted love and devotion!

When I first entered medical school, I had immense aspirations about becoming a doctor.

However, by my fourth and fifth years, I began to feel suffocated by the heavy coursework, and the companions with whom I used to burn the midnight oil together eventually became rivals competing for attending physician positions.

My passion for medicine was chipped away bit by bit just like that.

Yet, along this journey of practicing medicine, I encountered countless patients. Back when I was still completely unknown, for some reason, they were willing to entrust their lives to me.

Some patients kept coming back for eight or nine years, which gradually transformed my mindset toward the doctor-patient relationship.

To me, medicine was no longer just cold numbers and terminology; it began to turn into individual stories—some that made me toss and turn at night, some that brought a knowing smile to my face, and some that moved me to floods of tears.

And I want to share them with you.

May you, like me, find comfort within them.

About the Author

Dr. Kun-Chun Chiang

Associate Professor-level Attending Physician at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Associate Professor at Chang Gung University, and Ph.D. in Clinical Medicine from Chang Gung University. He has researched Vitamin D for a decade, published dozens of papers, and is the author of A Dose of D a Day, which was named one of the Top 100 Bestselling Books of 2018.

He has long served as a popular regular medical panelist on television shows such as Health 2.0, Super Mom, and Doctors, and is frequently invited as an interview guest on various other TV programs. Every time he posts medical tips or short stories from the hospital on his Facebook fan page "Dr. Kun-Chun Chiang," it strikes a deep chord and generates a massive response.