Dr. Elizabeth Comen

And it's opened up this incredible world of meeting people who are so devoted and passionate about closing these gaps in our healthcare system.

But I really wrote the book because I felt this, you know, hearing these stories from patients that it was not just about their diagnosis of breast cancer, but they couldn't find a cardiologist or they were told they were anxious when they had a neurologic disorder or they had a rheumatologic disorder or they had frozen shoulder and they couldn't find an orthopedic doctor.

Or they had IBS and were told that, you know, just like eat some more fiber.

And I really began to think, well, where does this legacy come from?

How do we unpack that?

Where and how did it start?

And then I just started reading and reading and reading.

And I went back to college or my college textbooks and were like,

oh my God, there is a legacy here that we have to be informed of.

Otherwise, we can talk all we want about what we need to improve.

But if we don't know where we came from and where it started, I think we're not going to get where we want to go.

What was that process like for you?

I was really lucky because I knew an agent at the time and I pitched her the idea.

We spoke about it for a long time.

The proposal, as you know, it goes, a lot of work goes into that.

And I really spent a year thinking about how did I want to structure this book?

And I decided I really wanted to do a walk through women's bodies by organ system the same way that it really developed in the 19th century.

These fields of gastroenterology, cardiology, neurology, and how much we've saddled OB-GYNs with all of women's health, which is absolutely outrageous.

If you're a cardiologist, you're taking care of women.

It's the number one killer of women.