About Anne Walter Fearn
Anne Walter Fearn was an American physician who went to Shanghai, China, on a temporary posting in 1893, and remained there for 40 years. She was then awarded a scholarship to the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, from where she graduated in 1893. She soon became known for her energetic approach and during her fourteen years at the hospital she performed operations, delivered babies, opened additional wards, and started a medical school for Chinese students. Although she did not belong to a church, Anne became an employee of the Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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