Or Hsieh

Or Hsieh or Hsieh Er (; January 1918 – 1995) was a Taiwanese physician, educator and politician. The first female surgeon from Taiwan, she was also one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography Hsieh was born in 1918 in Báng-kah, the second of four children of Hsieh Quan, who owned a restaurant. She attended Laosong Public School and Taihoku Prefectural Taihoku Third Girls' High School. She graduated in April 1935 as the third-best student in her class, after which she attended Tokyo Women's Medical College, graduating with honours in April 1940. She subsequently became the first Taiwanese woman to work as a surgeon, joining St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo. She returned to Taiwan in 1943, becoming an assistant professor in the medical department of the Taipei Imperial University.

While working at the university, Hsieh began reading the works of Lu Xun, Ba Jin and Lao She. Her surgical practice was destroyed following the February 28 incident after she made a radio broadcast downplaying the violence. She received a doctorate in public medicine from Columbia University, subsequently working at Oregon State Hospital and the New York State Department of Health, where she was deputy director.