But given that he was one of the best students in NTU's College of Medicine, one wonders why he did not become an eminent physician like most of the people he graduated with, including Hou Sheng-mao, head of the department of orthopedics at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH).
葉金川的公職資歷完整，但其實他是人人豔羨的台大醫學系高材生，令人好奇的是，他為何未像整型名醫林靜芸、台大骨科主任侯勝茂等同班同學，也循著一般醫學生的既定路線，成為一位名醫？