Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Okay, I say this with full conviction.

I say this with a wonderful OBGYN residency and training and full support of the American College of OBGYN.

We are really good at obstetrics.

I learned a ton about that.

We're good at screening for breast cancer.

We're good at screening for cervical cancer.

We're great at that stuff.

But where we see the biggest opportunity for you who's listening right now is in this last 30 to 40 years of your life.

And to quote Lisa Moscone, we are owed centuries of research.

We must stop treating women as small men.

We must in order for us to stay healthy.

There is a reason we have different health outcomes, why we have four times the amount of autoimmune disease, why we live 20% of our lives, according to the McKinsey Institute, in poorer health than our age-matched male counterparts, okay?

Yes, we live about five to six years longer than men, but those years are not great years.

And I don't have a single patient who says to me, I want to live as long as possible.

And I don't really care if I'm healthy or not.

And so if I can enjoy those years or remember those years.

I don't have a patient yet who says, look, if I have dementia, that's great.

Who cares?

You know, I don't care.

All of them.