There have been doctors representing Taiwan in the Provincial Assembly since Li Wu-tsung and Li Yuan-chan and also in the Legislative Yuan since Hung Wen tung, Wu Chi-fu, and Hsu herself in the early days, down to Shen Fu-hsiung today. As for county executives, both Kao Chih-peng of Penghu and Chang Wen-ying of Chiayi City come out of the hippocratic fraternity.
台灣醫生從政早期由省議員開始，如李烏棕、李源棧等；立法委員早期有許世賢、吳基福，中期有洪文棟，如今有沈富雄；本屆的縣市長選舉中，澎湖縣長高植澎、嘉義市長張文英也出身醫界。