Lin Qiaozhi is known(1)
as
as
the "mother of ten thousand babies"(2)
because
because
she had delivered over 50,000 babies in her lifetime.When she was 18 years old,she chose(3)
to study
to study
(study)medicine instead of following the traditional path of marriage like the majority of girls.(4)
After
After
graduating from Peking Union Medical College,she immediately became the first woman(5)
to be hired
to be hired
(hire)as a resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital.Then during the war,she opened her own clinic to help the patients.After the foundation of the new People's Republic of China,she held many important(6)
positions
positions
(position),but she was more interested(7)
in tending
in tending
(tend)patients.Dr Lin didn't retire (8)
until
until
the day she died,22 April 1983.