In his book The Ivory Tower: Sixty Letters to a Medical Student, Hsieh Fon-jou, a professor at National Taiwan University's College of Medicine, thus recalled the insufficiencies of medical resources and care during an earlier era of medicine in Taiwan. (His father began working as an obstetrician in the 1940s). "In his mind the concept of 'ethics' didn't exist.
台大醫學院教授謝豐舟在《白色斜塔──給醫學生的 60 封信》中，緬懷父親（1940 年代開始行醫的台灣第一代婦產科醫生）那醫療資源與醫病保護措施皆不足，但醫病關係似乎比現在輕鬆的年代。