Dr. Elizabeth Comen

I have a friend who's a gynecologist and she said, I don't want to put my diagnosis of IBS in my chart because people will think I'm crazy.

And we just don't know enough about IBS.

It isn't just that you're nervous and that's why your stomach is cramping and you have diarrhea and you feel horrible.

There's something that we're missing that we have to work through.

It isn't just that you need to calm down.

Calm yourself down.

Why have we been so dismissive of women?

But I do think the landscape is changing.

I think even just in the last few years with your work, thinking about how much we've had this groundswell of women and men that want to change the history of women's health.

So right now I'm like that swan that's trying to look graceful, but I'm like underneath here because I have had such a personal road in this space.

Tell me.

Everything from when I started doing media, I had a mentor say to me, why would you...

ever go on TV.

No good comes from a doctor being on TV.

And it was just sort of the rise of kind of this misinformation.

And I thought, if I'm not going to go out there and debate these snake oil quacks, what the hell is going to happen?

And why are we so arrogant in the medical community that we are not taught how to communicate?

We're just an echo chamber of the same thing.

You think you don't have people that you could talk to?

Oncology is a whole other field.