★ Taiwan’s first medical drama centered on a female obstetrician-gynecologist, based on this book, is slated for production—already drawing significant attention.

★ Following the bestselling Women in the Consultation Room, obstetrician-gynecologist Lin Jingyi returns with another powerful work. With keen observation, she delves into patients’ support systems, exploring how family, partners, and household dynamics impact women’s health and well-being.

★ Beyond the real-life stories from clinics and delivery rooms, the author also reveals intimate personal experiences from her own life for the first time, offering a candid and heartfelt account.

Why do the women who come to the consultation room so often arrive alone?

When your body no longer feels like your own, when you cannot make decisions about your own body—where is the support from partners, family, and loved ones?

If Women in the Consultation Room touched something deep inside you, Women in the Consultation Room 2 will move you to reclaim yourself.

These are stories of the women around us—wives, mothers, daughters, sisters—that everyone needs to understand:

A new bride, overjoyed at her pregnancy, watches her mother-in-law fall silent when the ultrasound reveals the baby is a girl…

A high school girl who has been responsible about protecting herself sexually is forcibly taken by her mother to have her hymen examined…

A woman seeking an abortion hesitates to obtain her husband’s consent—because she does not want him to discover she is HIV-positive…

A pregnant woman expecting her third child brings her elementary-school-age son to all her prenatal appointments, her husband nowhere to be seen…

A patient contracts gonorrhea and genital warts repeatedly—the source of infection unquestionably being her longtime partner…

These women’s stories remind Lin Jingyi of the day she herself was rushed to the emergency room.

When it comes to illness, women’s bodies remain trapped in constraints from a century ago. Those closest to them are often blind to their silent cries for help, forgetting that we—as family members and partners—are the answer.

Lin Jingyi

Attending physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Chung Shan Medical University Hospital; PhD candidate at the Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University. Mother of a proud long-haired dachshund, at an age when her eyes have begun to fail.

Before university, she read Dream of the Red Chamber, embroidered sachets, and practiced knitting. After university, she read medical journals, sutured human flesh, and handled internal organs. She never set any grand life goals, yet found herself doing things she had never imagined: serving as a member of the Ninth Legislative Yuan, a member of the Executive Yuan’s Committee for the Promotion of Women’s Rights, a member of gender equality committees for government agencies and local authorities, and holding directorships in several professional organizations. She has received the Golden Heart Award from the Centers for Disease Control, spent months drinking rainwater in the South Pacific, and eaten her share of dust storms in North India.

She believes that people make choices within limited options; good fortune should be met with gratitude, and adversity calls for self-reflection. Her outlook on life has been deeply shaped by the works of Haruki Murakami (meaning any deviations from sound thinking should be blamed on him). Wherever she works, she gives her all. To her, happiness is waking up naturally and brewing herself a cup of coffee.