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<p>Having the opportunity to come be the first permanent
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Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at
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the National Institutes of Health (NIH) represented not only
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a career change for me, but also a very, very exciting opportunity
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that I have tried to make the best of in every way that I could.
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We didn’t really have a good focus on what is now called
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Women’s Health up until about the time this office was established.
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The office at NIH is really the first office established
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within the Federal Government to focus on women’s health issues.
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It was established to make sure that women are
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included in clinical studies funded by the NIH—in other words,
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included in research—and to make sure that research is
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addressing the health of women in studies.</p>
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<p>I always wanted to be a physician and I always thought
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that was what I wanted to do. But my sophomore year in college,
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my mother developed a bad pain in her back.
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And the doctors thought it was arthritis. And I can remember
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going with her to the doctor and having him say, “Francina,
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if you just wore those oxfords I gave you and stood up straight
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and did those exercises, you wouldn’t have that pain.”
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But it turned out what he had missed, was that she had a bone tumor.
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I interrupted my career and stayed home with my mother and
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took care of her 24 hours a day until she died, which was in
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February of 1961. Then I went back to school with even more
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resolve that I wanted to be a physician, and I wanted to be
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the kind of physician who paid attention to my patients, and
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didn’t dismiss my patient’s complaints—something that has
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really carried through and I think has been central to
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my way of thinking and approaching women’s health in this
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portion of my career.</p>
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