LET KIDS BE KIDS

Mom, why do you think I’m sick?

媽媽，你為什麼覺得我有病？

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.

李佳燕醫師的診所下午不看診，她會把時間留給帶著孩子來求助的家庭，花一個下午與孩子對話、聆聽和陪伴他們。在她眼中，這些孩子都是珍貴而獨特的生命，她不理解為什麼他們會是學校老師或精神科醫師口中有「病」需要用藥物來治療的「過動兒」？她反對輕易用藥，主張花更多的時間理解孩子真正的需要，卻也因此被認為是反精神科、質疑教育體系的怪咖醫師。