Tainan doctors practice dragon boat rowing in hospital with makeshift paddles
Tainan doctors practice dragon boat rowing in hospital with makeshift paddles
2026-06-12
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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台南柳營奇美醫院組龍舟隊 下班"路上行舟"練划超反差
2026-06-12
端午節龍舟賽，不是只有專業選手才能參加，台南柳營奇美醫院的醫護人員，也組了兩支龍舟隊參賽，平時拿試管協助病患做檢驗的醫護同仁，下班後改拿起自製船槳，賣力練習，超有趣的畫面，讓他們自己都笑說，實在很反差。
陣陣鼓聲，打響氣勢，龍舟隊員隨節奏，賣力划槳。
動作整齊劃一，但龍舟隊員穿的是醫護袍，船槳是厚紙板和水管做的，本該在水上的場景，卻出現在醫院。
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“柳營奇美醫院一直非常注重員工，不管是生理健康或是心理的健康，我們籌組了兩支龍舟隊，由員工完全自主。”
端午節要到了，為了鼓勵員工多運動，台南柳營奇美醫院，護理部跟臨床病理部的同仁，組了兩支龍舟隊，由院長跟副院長當領隊，報名了嘉義東石龍舟賽，要和各隊強敵，激烈廝殺，員工下班後，抓緊時間苦練。
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“我們平常工作就拿試管、拿病人的檢體，面對那一些冷冰冰的臨床數據，但是其實有機會可以下班後的時間，去參加這種健康促進的活動，細的也會，那粗重的我們也會。”
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“其實我們抽血平常是拿針的，但是我們現在拿個大槳在抽血，整個人都快閃架了。”
上班拿試管，下班拿船槳，超級反差萌，辦公室內，低成本空氣划槳，卻上升到醫院高層都來關心。
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“我們副院長平常關心的是病人安全，還有醫療品質，那現在副院長關心的是，我們到底有沒有在認真划。”
這不是開玩笑，可別小看醫護人員，他們是鐵了心，要把冠軍抱回家。
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