江自得——具有追求社會關懷的詩人

Chiang Tzu-Te, a Poet Who Seeks for Social Concern

由江自得醫師早些年的詩作品，看出了他關懷面的深廣，並且因為愛心的灌入，使得他優異的醫療技術背後－台灣胸腔內科界認定的好手，還具備有足以成為醫學界後生晚輩所必須效法學習的，不忍人受苦受難，聞聲救助，拔苦予樂的仁者之心。其有這樣的特質，他決定從肺癌基礎醫學退下來，進行更深一的人生哲理探尋之旅，那自是無法避免於社會層面的關懷，可是他進行的不是直接的涉入，而是可以更加客觀超然的介入，因採取這樣的觀察高度，他創造出台灣現代詩史上獨一無二的社會醫療詩寫作。江自得社會醫療詩寫作，是藉著一般大眾耳熟能詳的醫學名詞，來做有關於社會現象歷史事件，新聞時事的個人謬思上的見解；容或各人自有各的詮釋角度，但創意點子自是其他詩人無法比擬。而這正也是他獨步於台灣現代詩壇的不同於他人之處。從〈大腦〉詩中，用大腦細胞比擬於社會中，各個組成份子各有各的見解主張；自是更加需要協調運作。但若像是〈屁〉詩中描述的一般，沒有做為公平與正義的大眾媒體，自是會影響民眾以及由民眾組成的社會團體，變成如〈解剖〉詩中一樣，已然逝去的身軀再怎麼找出原因，卻也只是徒增傷悲而已。就是如此，本著愛人、愛團體、愛土地的醫者之心，自是不可讓台灣醫師歷史在詩作中缺席，並且期許做為現今醫師學習的典範。〈那些天，蔣渭水在牢裡〉正是這樣產生的作品。詩作中提及的愛爾蘭的情況正和此時台灣的情況異曲同工，如果能化解分歧的主張，妥協以求最大的合作公約數，好來建構台灣主體性，正是很多吃台灣米、喝台灣水，一心為台灣好的有機知識分子包括醫師在內所必須努力的方向。這就是江自得，一個集良醫與名醫於一身，兼具文學才華，巧用詩作（醫療詩）做介入而沒有涉入的社會關懷，而且身體力行，絕不退縮的不同凡響的醫師。

We can find out Dr. Chiang's wide and deep concern about society from his early poems. With his love, he became one of the three best doctors in the thoracic internal medicine area in Taiwan, He also has the benevolence to help those who need help. He set a good example for the younger generation Because of this distinguished character, he decided to retire from the basic medical science of lung cancer and then set out on the journey of seeking for deeper life philosophy which was also the unavoidable concern about the social side. Yet he didn't get involved directly but intervened objectively, and because of this level of observation, he created the unique social medical poems in the history of Taiwan modern poetry. Chiang Tzu-Te writes social medical poems with common medical terms to expound personal opinion of social historical events and news. Although every reader has one's own different explanation, others still can't be put on a par with his creative ideas. In the poem "The Cerebrum" he used the cerebrum cells to simulate the members in the society and to advocate that each member has his own opinions and has to cooperate with the others. In the poem "Fart" describes that the mass medium without justice and justness will affect the public and the social groups made with the public; then eventually, the society will become a dead body that leaves nothing but sadness just like the description in the poem "dissention". With the heart of a doctor to love people, groups and the land, his poems naturally couldn't be absent from the history of Taiwanese doctors and became the example for modern doctors to learn from. "In Those Days, When Chiang Wei-Shui Was in Jail" was a poem produced in that way. The situation of Ireland mentioned in the poem was just like the situation in Taiwan nowadays. The intellectuals who "eat Taiwan rice, drink Taiwan water and love nothing but Taiwan" including doctors should try to push people to eliminate the gaps between different opinions and compromise for cooperation to build the future of Taiwan. This is Chiang Tzu-Te, a good and famous doctor with poetical talent, using medical poets to observe instead of intervention for the social concern, and practicing his own preach and never holding back.