Often people stand up for what they believe in, but, the negativity from others and consequences stop them. Nancy Olivieri was determined to help her patients and let them know the truth about the drug. Nancy Olivieri’s discovery of the drug trial still remains till this day a beneficial action for the medical industry. Her discovery shows that every hospital has different ways that it is governed, financial and health stakes, and this could be happening somewhere else in the world not just in Toronto. Nancy was best known for a protracted struggle with the Hospital for Sick Children and the pharmaceutical company apotex about the drug deferiprone (Miriam 32). When she was younger, her teachers and fellow students described her as a “perfect little …show more content…
Her early years of life were quite unusual as she went to a catholic school, and was first out of her sibling to attend college. She studied at the University of Toronto where she took her pre- medicals. Her final year of her internship was spent at sick children’s, working with patients that have she thalassemia. She worked under Mel Freeman, the man that taught her everything she needs to know about how to treat patients with thalassemia. Nancy got close to her patients and made them feel as if they were at home. They would describe her as hyper or stoic (Miriam 17). Waiting at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children was an opportunity that would serve at the time to be Olivieri’s greatest defeat to help the sick children. In 1987 Nancy Olivieri left Boston to settle back in Toronto, where she got hired to work on the clinical side. Although, she would be a faculty of the University, she was expected to