"My father was a surgeon. I watched him perform an operation when I was little, and I can still picture my mother comforting patients in my mind," so it was natural for Kuo Ch'un-mei to become a volunteer after her son reached school age.
「我的父親是外科醫生，小時候就曾看過父親開刀，而且腦海中常有母親安慰病患的景像」，所以很自然的，在兒子上小學後，郭純美理所當然的當起義工。