Bitao Lian

Bitao Lian was born in 1962 in Zijin County, Guangdong Province, China. She was admitted to Guangzhou Medical University in 1978, where she received training for five years. She graduated in August 1983, and then she was assigned by the government to Shenzhen City Central Hospital in Guangdong Province, as a obstetrician-gynecologist. In 1986, she was assigned to the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhongsan Medical University for a year of obstetrics and gynecology. In 1990, she moved to Sydney, Australia, to study at the College of Natural Therapeutics. She also worked as a Chinese medicine practitioner at Sydney’s Chinese Herbs Medical Center. In 1992, she emigrated to Florida, where, during the following year, she obtained an American Acupuncture Practitioner’s license and subsequently opened her clinic, the Oriental Healing Center, where she still practices.

In 2016, after performing acupuncture on a patient in St. Augustine, Bitao walked onto the beach and then into the surf and was struck by the way that the clear, blue ocean water had suddenly been replaced by water with an appearance of a hypoxic uterus and turbid, yellow amniotic fluid. This happened at a time when a violent hurricane’s turbulence was just beginning to be seen along the northern coast of Florida. Bitao was immediately reminded of the mysterious killer, amniotic fluid embolism, or AFE, which she had seen years ago in a pregnant patient. Her imagination was further magnified during her drive home by a news story describing a pregnant woman suffering from AFE who committed suicide by jumping from a hospital window in China. These two events propelled Bitao to write her first book, which is partly autobiographical, for the purpose of warning women about AFE by describing cases and giving precise information on how to prevent and treat the hidden killing condition.

In her second book, the author will discuss her successful treatment of bone injuries.