Given that they have been able to earn large amounts of money, some choose to emigrate and live lives of leisure abroad, or perhaps to just become GPs (general practitioners). Hu Wei-ming points out that in the past two years alone three surgeons have left Chung Hsiao to open clinics as GPs or pediatricians.
由於醫師平均收入高過其他行業，在經濟條件允許下，有的移民國外當寓公，有的則離開外科領域，當起「非專科」醫師。胡煒明指出，兩年來市立忠孝醫院已有三位外科醫師離開，出去開一般科或內兒科診所。