Dr. Elizabeth Comen

Atypical.

We are greater than 50% of the population is the number one killer of women.

And why is that considered atypical?

And so I went back in time and I read, so William Osler was one of the most famous cardiologists who founded the residency system at Hopkins.

And I read his seminal work on cardiovascular disease.

And so to kind of feel like, well, where did this start, right?

So first of all, he didn't believe that women should go to medical school.

Okay, fine.

So I read, there's over 800 citations in this book, and I read all the primary sources.

So I read what this man said about men's heart disease.

Okay, so who gets a heart attack?

The overworked gray-haired man whose engine is working overtime.

And then he had this whole pattern of women that he would see and that he wrote about.

And he would call each one Miss something by their last name.

So Miss C, Miss B, whatever.

And he would describe the nature of their chest pain.

It was almost always described as neurotic angina, so neurotic chest pain.

And at the end of each one, he would attribute it to something other than a cardiac problem.

Psychological instead of biological.

And so...