Dr. Elizabeth Comen

But if you don't feel well and something feels off and you know your body, you must call your doctor.

Women are twice as likely to call an ambulance on their husband having a heart attack than they are to call for themselves.

And then go through the statistics of what happens if they do make it to the ER.

They are far more likely to be misdiagnosed, to not even have an EKG done, to have their heart attack missed, and to die within their first year of having a heart attack.

And what are they typically diagnosed with?

That you're having a panic attack.

Panic attack.

Yes, of course.

That's the whole point.

That's the default diagnosis, the history of hysteria.

Translating that either from hysteria to it's all in your head to you're just anxious.

And so much of that is because we don't know what's going on.

Because we haven't studied it.

And there's an arrogance to medicine.

When we don't know what's going on, we blame the patient and say, it must just be you.

80% of autoimmune diseases are in women.

And were you taught that that was a women's health problem in medical school?

I was not.

So we don't consider that a women's health field.

Okay, it affects 80% of those with autoimmune diseases are women.