The Taichung Armed Forces Gen-eral Hospital, located about 30 minutes by car from the Taichung railway station, was never an especially famous hospital. But after the Discovery Channel broadcast a biography of Chang Kao-wha, Taiwan's "miracle doctor" of the spine, the number of patients attending outpatients 'clinics at the Department of Orthopedics there boomed.
自從 2008 年 12 月底 Discovery 頻道播出台灣《脊椎神醫》張國華的人物報導後，距離台中車站 30 分鐘車程、原本知名度不高的太平市國軍台中醫院骨科門診人數就暴增。