Dr. Landsborough recruited two Taiwanese graduates from medical college in Taipei, where most medical students at the time were Japanese, to help at the hospital. The newcomers were extremely conscientious but the patients, by and large, didn't want to be seen and treated by one of their own.
蘭大衛自台北醫專（台大醫院前身，當時多收日本學生）聘請兩位台籍畢業生到醫院工作，他們十分盡職，但病患多不願意接受本地醫師看診治療。