For all her training in Western medicine, Dr. Tsuei thinks it places too much emphasis on physiological research at the expense of emotional or psychological factors, while modern specialization encourages a blinkered approach in which doctors only look at a single aspect of the patient's health.
此外，學西醫出身的崔玖也認為，西醫對疾病過於偏重生理研究，較忽略病人的情感或心理因素；近代盛行的專科醫師制度分科又過於精細，常無法兼顧人體全身的互動關係，以致於有頭痛光醫頭，腳痛只醫腳的弊病。