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It’s not only professional athletes who compete in the annual dragon boat races. At the Liouying Chi Mei Medical Center in Tainan, enough staff were interested to form two entire teams. After work, these professionals swap out their test tubes and stethoscopes for makeshift paddles, heading to a spare room to practice with all their might. Even the team members admit that seeing a bunch of doctors rowing on land is pretty hilarious.
Rallied by the steady beat of the drum, a dragon boat team rows furiously to the rhythm.
Their movements are in perfect unison, but instead of jerseys, they’re wearing doctor’s coats, and instead of wooden paddles, they’re holding cardboard and PVC pipes. Instead of the open water, they’re in a hospital.
Chiang Wei-fan
Liouying Chi Mei Hospital secretary
Liouying Chi Mei Hospital has always emphasized our staff’s well-being, both their physiological and mental health. We assembled two volunteer dragon boat teams entirely composed of our staff.
Dragon Boat Festival is fast approaching. To encourage their employees to get more exercise, nurses and staff in the clinical pathology department joined forces to form two teams. Led by the hospital’s superintendent and vice superintendent, the teams signed up for the Dongshih Dragon Boat Race in Chiayi, gearing up to battle a field of formidable opponents. They’re making use of their off-work hours to grind out some practice.
Hospital staff
Rowing
Usually we’re holding test tubes or patient samples, staring at cold hard data all day long. It’s great getting to use our off-duty hours to join this kind of healthy activity. We can do super precise tasks, but we can also handle the heavy lifting!
Hospital staff
Rowing
We’re usually holding syringes to draw blood, but now we’re holding big paddles like we’re drawing blood from the air. I feel like I’m about to fall apart.
Swapping their test tubes for paddles is quite the charming contrast. Their low-budget air paddling in a spare conference room has even gotten the attention of the hospital management.
Hospital staff
Rowing
The vice superintendent usually spends his days worrying about patient safety and quality of care, but now he only cares about whether we’re putting our all into rowing!
That’s no joke! Don’t underestimate these physicians—they’re determined to bring home the gold.
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