Three longs and two shorts Although at times doctor and patient are like a married couple enduring hard times hand in hand, in fact this partnership is increasingly short and shallow. Perhaps the most widely complained-about aspect of medical culture in Taiwan is the "three longs and two shorts."
三長兩短雖然，在許多時候醫病雙方必須像夫妻般攜手共闖難關，然而這對怨偶的關係事實上已越來越「短淺」。