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Dr. Elizabeth Comen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1098 total appearances

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

And the number of men throughout history that claim to find it and claim it, it's like women knew where it was for a long time.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

Women figured that out.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

Yeah, we figured it out.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

I'm pretty sure in the cave, they were still having a good time.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

Yeah, and if you look at the dialogue around women's health, it's about our reproductive capacity in every way, right?

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

This is what gets debated in society, but you probably know better than anybody else.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

How many women did you see with GI complaints, urinary complaints, pulmonary complaints, vague complaints that ultimately had a misdiagnosis of endometriosis and we still don't know how to treat it effectively?

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

or had a hysterectomy that they possibly didn't need.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

Or maybe they needed it and weren't offered it because, you know, the only option was to try to preserve their fertility.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

Talk to me about Anne and the vibrator.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

Anne was this like photographer in her 80s with like awesome gray hair, always wore like really vibrant clothing and these big,

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

round glasses and just super dynamic.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

She had an early stage breast cancer and I had, you know, I would do it very differently today, to be quite honest, this was years ago.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

And I put her on an aromatase inhibitor, which is to decrease the risk of recurrence of her cancer.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

I don't know what I would do today, but probably not that.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

But that was this and is the standard of care.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

And

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

You know, I told her about the side effects, which could be like joint aches, decrease in bone density.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

But I didn't talk to her about decreased libido and pain during sex or anything like that or vaginal dryness.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
From Hysteria to Medical Gaslighting and the Path Forward with Dr. Elizabeth Comen

Did you know that?