He was 25 years old and fresh out of medical school when he was assigned to the Presbyterian mission in Taiwan, where typhoid had just taken the life of his predecessor, Dr. Gavin Russell.
他剛由醫學院畢業時，適逢在台灣宣教的盧嘉敏醫師不幸因傷寒病逝，亟需一位醫師前來接任盧醫師的職務。