Dr. Mary Claire Haver

So if you're not taught to see something in school, in our training, we have a lot to learn.

And so much of what we do is great.

You don't look for it.

So if these screening tools are not really evaluating a woman and taking into account the hormone changes that are wreaking havoc throughout her body, we are going to miss ways that we could help women.

And when you don't look for it, women are going to suffer.

Okay, so what can we do about it?

I have to refer to my notes because I get really impassioned here.

We have to empower through evidence.

We need to fund the studies.

And the way we fund studies in this country are through two main ways, okay, or three.

The National Institutes of Health, and we are undergoing a massive transition in how we fund studies looking at that institution.

Yes, we needed changes made.

Did we have to blow up the whole system?

I think not.

That would be my personal opinion.

I think we have a long way to go.

But the NIH, let me be clear, was massively underfunding women's health.

They were not doing a great job in women's health.

OK, of the 43 billion dollar budget, about 10 percent was going to women's health and most of that was going to pregnancy and breast cancer and some ovarian cancer.

Those were the three main buckets.