By putting it in those terms, Gao gets the patients to listen to what he has to say. And there's always a patient who ends up feeling better for having laughed, who becomes able to say, "I'll take things as they come. Worrying isn't helping anything!"
當高瑞協這麼說時，病友都可以聽得進去，往往大笑過後，再問他們現在的感受，有人就會說，「順其自然，煩惱也沒有用的啦！」