Dr. Elizabeth Comen

You are a women's health specialist.

Even with a diagnosis of breast cancer.

breast cancer.

Yes, yes, of course.

So I really wanted to walk through each of these specialties to understand the specific gaps that exist in each field.

So that took some time to come up with.

And then I was really lucky.

The book went to auction and, you know, it's done well.

And I'm grateful to be part of this bigger mission.

So it's interesting because it is a story where my editor originally was like, are you sure you wanna open with something so negative and sad?

And I felt very, I felt that I had to and that it really spoke to the shame and the legacy of that shame that so many women feel.

So Ellen, a made up name, but a real patient, was a patient of mine.

She was a mother of four.

She was incredible.

She was living with metastatic breast cancer.

So she knew she was gonna die of her cancer at some point.

But she did well for years and years and years.

And every appointment was so joyful because it was pictures of the travel and the mountains that she climbed and the outfits that she wore.

And then in a short period of time, she decompensated and became very sick.

And I went to see her in the hospital and it was about 18 hours before she died.