Eight years later, Lin graduated from Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) with the Wenhai Scholarship,     1    . She immediately became     2     in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital... After working for a few years, she was sent to study in Europe and then, in 1939, in the US. She     3    , who invited her to stay. Dr. Lin, however, rejected the offer.

“Life is p    1    …To a person nothing is more precious than their life, and if they entrust me with that life, how could I r    2    that trust, saying I’m cold, hungry, or tired?” These words of Dr Lin Qiaozhi give us a look into the heart of this a    3     woman, and what carried her through a life of hard choices.

… “Why should girls learn so much? F    4    a good husband should be their final goal!” her brother c    5    , thinking of the high tuition f    6    She responded, “I’d rather stay single to study all my life!”

The new People’s Republic of China s    7    Dr Lin Qiaozhi playing a key role. In 1954, she was elected to the first National People’s Congress and, over the next several d    8    , she held many important positions. Her heart, however, was elsewhere. She was more interested intending patients, p    9    medical research on care for women and children, and training the next generation of doctors. “The OB-GYN department cares for two lives,” She told new staff in her department. “As doctors, we should be r    10     for the patients and treat them as our sisters.”