And although the island's masseurs are sometimes more politely referred to as "masters of health protection," as Chen Ching-chun, a one-time teacher at the Institute for the Blind, says, it is nonetheless, "an exhausting, lowstatus job which keeps you on a vampire's schedule and sees you heavily discriminated against.
雖然按摩師另有一個好聽的稱呼「護康師」，但就像曾在台灣盲人重建院執教的陳錦純所言：「按摩是份耗費體力、日夜顛倒、備受歧視、無社會地位的工作，唯一的優點是：收入不差。」