Lois notices few women in a cardiac rehabilitation program.
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I really did have to advocate because the cardiologist at [urban hospital], she was not necessarily – I can’t say she wasn’t in favour, but I really had to push my family doctor and I heard that from the cardiac rehab people that that was not unusual. As I said there were two of us in there at different times and then I talk – somebody talked to me and she said, you know, ‘We have trouble keeping women here,’ for various reasons and a lot of them they said that they had other family – family responsibilities to keep. Now I have responsibilities too, but I also think that my heart was important.
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