Dr. Elizabeth Comen
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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.
Women figured that out.
Yeah, we figured it out.
I'm pretty sure in the cave, they were still having a good time.
Yeah, and if you look at the dialogue around women's health, it's about our reproductive capacity in every way, right?
This is what gets debated in society, but you probably know better than anybody else.
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?
or had a hysterectomy that they possibly didn't need.
Or maybe they needed it and weren't offered it because, you know, the only option was to try to preserve their fertility.
Talk to me about Anne and the vibrator.
Anne was this like photographer in her 80s with like awesome gray hair, always wore like really vibrant clothing and these big,
round glasses and just super dynamic.
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.
And I put her on an aromatase inhibitor, which is to decrease the risk of recurrence of her cancer.
I don't know what I would do today, but probably not that.
But that was this and is the standard of care.
And
You know, I told her about the side effects, which could be like joint aches, decrease in bone density.
But I didn't talk to her about decreased libido and pain during sex or anything like that or vaginal dryness.
Did you know that?