Dr. Elizabeth Comen

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It is thrilling, exciting to be able to work at a hospital where I have colleagues that care about women in all these subspecialties under one roof, in one collaborative, thinking about how we research women's health, how we collaborate about women's health, how we change the education for our medical students.

NYU is free to all medical students as well and how we improve the clinical care delivery so that the orthopedic surgeon

can talk to the cardiologist, can talk to the gynecologist, can do all the things that will relate to what women want, which is to feel whole in their medical care.

Thank you.

We worked really hard.

Oh my God.

Good job.

So thank you.

I appreciate that.

It goes back to the history of medicine, I think, where the idea was that doctors cure and nurses, primarily women, care.

And yet the system has valued doctors and not the nursing bedside care.

And when you translate that and you look at these continuity fields that women are more likely to go into, pediatrics, hospice care, the ones that are psychiatry, where you have to sit and listen with patients, these are also the ones that are paid less.

Procedural ones, material ones, where there's something objective that you can hold onto and say, you removed a mole, you removed an organ, whatever it may be, that is often what is valued more.

And I think when you look at these qualitative measures of what it means to care for a patient, including this very amorphous word of empathy, this is not what we value in our current medical system at all.

There is no billing code for my spending endless amount of time holding a dying patient's hand.

or spending more time with the patient and connecting with them.

If I were to remove a mole, certainly, right?

Right.