價值

生活就是充滿難處。每個人面對各自的境況，因著自身的成長背景，經歷，資源，信仰等等的影響，每天做著不同的決定。有些事情，可能沒有選擇的餘地，然而在更多的時候，還是需要選擇，無論是三選一或是50/50。龍應台2011年在港大醫學院畢業禮的一段講話，這幾天在facebook廣傳。從Patrick Manson 到國父孫中山，以至回到作為人在社會上的表現，說出了每個人對於其他人對於社會對於世界的價值觀。差不多二千二百字的講章，好戲卻在後頭，醫生的工作，是不用冠冕堂皇，而是在於讓人得到服侍醫治；是不用行政手段，而是在於讓人得到尊重，尊重同業尊重病人。自己能作多少，就盡力作多少。

"My family moved to a fishing village when I was 14. We were so poor that, when the children got sick, my mother would not dare to go to a clinic. One day, my youngest brother had a fever so high and coughed so badly that my mother was forced to go to the village doctor. We all went--four children of different age and height stood face to face with this very quiet man. He hardly spoke, and when he did speak, with a very soft voice, it was either Japanese or the Fukien dialect, which we could not understand a word of. He checked the little boy, pressed the medicine into my mother's hand, coached her in the unintelligible language how to care for the young, and refused to accept fees. And thereafter, throughout our childhood, he declined any fees from us.
That was my very first memory of a doctor's visit. The room was barely furnished but extremely clean and outside the room was a small courtyard, glittering with afternoon sunshine, and I could smell the scent of the summer jasmine in full bloom."

全文: Speech by Professor Lung Ying-tai, Faculty Graduation and Prize Presentation Ceremony November 28, 2011