Teng Fang-nan, the director of the Chinese Medicine Association of Taipei, says that patients often turn to Chinese medicine only after Western medicine has failed them.
加上中藥常被迫做醫療體系裡的「收尾」工作，台北市中藥公會理事長鄧芳男就表示，病人常是西醫治不好了，才來找中醫。