In 1992, when career naval officer Dr. Connie Mariano accepted a two-year stint as White House physician during the final days of the first George Bush presidency, she never imagined the gig would last for nine years and span three administrations. Not only did she become the first woman in American history to serve as the primary doctor to the president and the director of the White House Medical Unit, but she is also the first Filipino-American to serve as a Navy rear admiral. From applying a Band-Aid to the elder Bush’s golf blister to drawing Clinton’s blood sample during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the divorced mother of two doled out good medicine for three first families. – ?