Vice President Lai Qingde shared that his career in politics was an unexpected journey.

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[Reporter Lin Huiqin/Taipei Report] Vice President Lai Ching-teh, who represents the Democratic Progressive Party in next year's presidential election and was born as a nephrologist, attended the spring academic lecture of the Taiwan Society of Nephrology today, and shared his slash life, referring to Chen Dingnan in 1994 Running for the provincial governor’s election was a critical year for me in politics. At that time, I compared the problem of the Kuomintang with diseases. Buying votes in the election made the society suffer from “diabetes”, election violence was “high blood pressure”, and national identity was “schizophrenia”.

Taiwan Society of Kidney Medicine’s Spring Academic Lecture was held today at Taipei Medical University. Lai Qingde attended and mentioned that studying medicine to help the world and save people was his childhood aspiration, all the way from the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of National Taiwan University, as a physical therapist, to the postgraduate study of National Cheng Kung University In the Department of Medicine, he obtained a master's degree in public health from Harvard University, and his career in politics was an unexpected journey. It was the key to help Chen Dingnan run for the governor's election and challenge Taiwan's first "turn into blue sky" in 400 years.

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Lai Qingde pointed out that at that time, he used the analogy of diseases to some social phenomena, such as KMT elections buying votes, money politics is like "diabetes", too much sugar can seriously cause retinal problems, strokes, kidney dialysis, heart disease; Someone is shot and dies instantly, violent politics is like "high blood pressure".

As for the KMT's national identity, it's like "schizophrenia."

Lai Qingde also mentioned that Huang Jianzhong, the veteran of the Nephrology Department of Chengda Hospital, once asked himself, "Don't be a nephrologist in politics. If you start a clinic in politics, I can't transfer patients to you." The face of the world, you have to look like a doctor, you can't fight everywhere", I agreed.

Later, Huang Jianzhong distributed Lai Qingde's propaganda in the outpatient clinic and asked the students to support him.

He will be in politics for 30 years, but Lai Qingde said that he has not felt that he has left the medical field. Physicians treat diseases as relatives, while politics treat the people as relatives; medicine treats diseases, and politics treats the world; medical treatment and social events are also It's prevention over cure.

Lai Qingde emphasized that the medical profession is of great help to the way of doing things in a political career by cultivating professionalism, non-partisan human rights values, and evidence-based logical training.