Taught Bai the best

Foe Tai Ling remembers the day she rushed out of a consulting room at the Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital on hearing screams and cries from the next room.

When she peered inside, she saw Dr Bai Yulan treating a 9-year-old boy with acupuncture needles. The boy was wailing with pain and his father, who could not bear to watch, was standing outside in the corridor.

However, the father knew his son's pain would be worth it. He told Ling, an Indonesian intern in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), that his child's hearing had improved because of it and that if she wanted to learn acupuncture, she should apprentice herself to Bai.