Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein

I feel very, I feel empowered by the knowledge I have.

But I have a...

strange amount of niche knowledge, and I love to share it with people.

The other thing I always do whenever I have a woman with frozen shoulder, I always take basically a perimenopausal or menopausal history.

I always ask them, are you having hot flushes?

Are you having night sweats?

You know, like what else is going on with you?

And I make a lot of referrals to women's health and probably

three to five per day in my orthopedic clinic to women's health because they're having these concomitant symptoms.

And do I have proof that initiating systemic estradiol reverses or makes your shoulder better or makes you not get on the other side?

No, but I'm studying that.

But does it make sense to me that it would?

It does make sense to me that it would.

And they need their other symptoms treated anyway.

I grew up basically up and down the East Coast in Connecticut, the D.C.

area, North Carolina.

My dad was an ophthalmologist, so like any child of a medical practitioner, we followed the chunks of his life, you know, medical school residency and his first practice.

So I'm an East Coaster, mostly.

Why did you go into medicine?

I actually thought I would not go into medicine, which I think is also common among children of doctors.