LET KIDS BE KIDS

Mom, why do you think I’m sick?

Dr. LEE Chia-yen’s clinic is closed in the afternoons since these slots are reserved for the worried parents who bring their children to see her. Dr. LEE spends the whole afternoon talking and listening to them. In her eyes, these children are precious and unique lives. She cannot understand why their teachers and the psychiatrists regard them as “patients” who suffer from ADHD and have to take medicine. Dr. LEE opposes making a diagnosis and prescribing medicine without proper consideration. She advocates that the parents, the educators and the child psychiatrists should spend more time trying to understand what children really need in order to find the roots of the problems. As a result, Dr. LEE is often seen as an eccentric doctor, who is against psychiatry and questions the education system.