It Is More Blessed To Give Than To Receive. 小巷內的小醫師

It is more blessed to give than to receive. 小巷內的小醫師

Bible, Acts 20:35 (King James Version):

“I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to
support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus,
how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

For more than a quarter of century, 陳安泰, a "小巷內的小醫師",
has set up a scholarship for the undergraduate students at National
Taiwan University. One student was selected from each college to
receive total of NT$ 800,000.00 scholarship each year.

He had once said “ 我覺得 give (施) 比 gain (receive) (受) 還快樂.”,
or in Christian words “施比受更有福”, although he is not a Christian.
(I understand he is a Buddhist)

Dr. 陳安泰 is my classmate in the NTUMC (台大醫學院) class
(1961-1968). He was an extremely shy student from Southern
Taiwan. In school, he often tried to shun away from the crowd.
He considered himself as to suffer from “社會人群恐懽症”, and he
did have some tough time during the school years. He however
had made every effort to overcome it.

After graduation, he went into training in psychiatry specialty at
NTU Hospital and later started his solo private practice in a small
alley in Taipei City. He called himself a 小巷內的小醫師, but his
patients have come from all different places in Taiwan, which
had certainly boosted his confidence and made him work even
harder. He then began to think that there was an obligation for
him to give back (回饋) to the society. He set up scholarships at
NTU. For more than a quarter of century, numerous students
have been benefited by his scholarship aids, many of them are
doing very well and some even are now college professors.

It is more blessed to give than to receive. 陳安泰, a 小巷內的小醫師,
has continued to enjoy“施比受更有福”

I am so proud to be one of his classmates.

Yeh Tze