But the TCM Clinic finds itself under enormous pressure, because many of its patients present complex symptoms that have proven resistant to Western medicine. Such patients place great hopes in Chinese medicine and set deadlines for positive results. The clinic faces the formidable challenge of improving patients 'condition within three or four weeks of admission.
但另一方面，院方壓力也很大，由於送來的病人通常是西醫藥石罔效的高度疑難雜症，不僅病人對療效期望很大，同時要求「限時生效」，三、四個星期之內必須改善病情，所以挑戰性相當高。