Dr. Rachel Rubin

And so they come with symptoms.

You can have urinary frequency, urinary urgency.

You can have difficulty having bowel movements.

You can have pain with intercourse.

You can have difficulty with any kind of speculum or tampon.

And so this is where we work with our we get a good diagnosis and we work with our musculoskeletal colleagues, the geniuses of the world who we call pelvic floor physical therapists.

And if you have like they treat men, they treat women, they treat every day, you know, and they relax and get these muscles rehabbed.

Because you can get a knee replacement and a rehab makes sense to you.

But if you have a watermelon come out of your vagina and you have a baby, rehab suddenly doesn't make sense to you.

And that's kind of wild.

Amazing.

What are the like common misdiagnoses that you see after women finally make their way to your office?

I didn't realize how I love my job so much.

It's just insane how much I love what I do.

And it is because I always say to patients, like, I am not a magician.

Truly, I'm not a magician.

But my batting average is really good because when you spend time with someone and you get to know them and you figure out what they care about, you can optimize and help reach their goals and give them a toolbox that then they choose from to kind of get better.

And it's when you do that that we see really, truly magic happen.

And I didn't realize how much sitting with people and listening to them and then using biology to help them explain their symptoms in a biopsychosocial way and using what I know about science and anatomy and physiology to help be like, well, this makes sense because this is what I know.

And let me show you pictures and let me show you diagrams and let me teach you what I know.