"Study doctors play two roles, in that they are both doctors and researchers," says Liu Hung-en, who teaches law at National Taipei University. "The conflict between the two has never received a lot of attention." Liu says that attending physicians at university hospitals must teach and publish on top of treating patients. As a result, they are always both doctors and researchers.
「臨床醫師身兼研究者的角色衝突，一直以來未被重視，」台北大學法律學系助理教授劉宏恩指出，各大教學醫院的主治醫師，除了替病人看診外，還普遍存在擔任教職、發表研究報告的壓力，因此往往身兼醫師與研究者的雙重身份。