At the time, Kiang Wu Hospital and all its doctors specialized in traditional Chinese medicine, and Sun was not only the first doctor at Kiang Wu with Western training, but the first Western-trained Chinese doctor in Macao.
當時屬「廟醫」型態的鏡湖醫院，院內醫師全都是中醫，領有西醫資格的孫中山不僅是鏡湖首見、也是澳門史上首位華人西醫師。