TURNING POINT

摘要

I expected to become a clinical doctor when I completed my MD at Shanxi Medical University in Taiyuan, China. I got a job offer at a hospital in Changzhi, my parents' current residence. Then, during the last year of medical school, I did an internship at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Shanxi Province. I wanted to use population-based data to get useful public-health information. I thought I would do a graduate programme in epidemiology, but the principal investigator wanted a man. He felt it wasn't safe for a woman to travel alone collecting data in the countryside. Biostatistics was similar, without the travel, and a good fit. I did a survival analysis of people with lung cancer.