His father and mother had died two and three years before, after long hospitalizations for strokes, high blood pressure and diabetes. At the time he was the president of the Kaoshiung Medical College, and in spare moments from work would visit them in their rooms. His parents were very dissatisfied that their son, who was a doctor himself, could not lessen their pain.
他指出，父母親去世前二、三年，分別因中風、高血壓、糖尿病長期住院，當時他是高雄醫學院的院長，工作之餘經常到病房探視，但是父母親對於身為醫生的兒子不能親自照顧、為他們減輕痛苦，很不滿意。