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Echoes of frustration with racism in medicine rebound among students, staff and faculty, as students work for positive change in medical school and health care overall.
Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Heide Spence, a mother of two, said she does not remember a time in her life since getting her first menstrual cycle at age 10 when she did not suffer from painful period complications. "I wouldn't have a period for months at a time and then I would get one and it would look like a crime scene because it was so much blood," Spence, now 40, told ABC News' Good Morning America. "I would travel to work with a change of clothes because I would go from home to work 15 minutes away and would have bled through an overnight pad." Spence, of New Jersey, said she was told by doctors over the years that her symptoms were nothing to worry about, or that one heavy period was just the result of her not having a period the months before. Being a young, single mom on Medicaid at the time only made things harder, according to Spence. "Taking care of my health was at the bottom of my priority list because at some jobs I wor