Dr. Rachel Rubin

I didn't realize how that was medicine.

I had a patient just this week where she had seen so many doctors, so many doctors.

And she thought that I was just going to be another doctor that didn't have a hypothesis, didn't have an idea and just told her it was all in her head.

And I gave her a mirror, which we do in our field.

We give people mirrors and we say, this is your labia majora.

This is your labia minora.

This is your clitoris.

This is your vulvar vestibule.

This is your pelvic floor.

And you poke them and you find their pain and you find where they don't have pain.

And they've already looked at diagrams.

So they are they're just as smart as you at that point.

They see their pain.

They see it in the mirror.

And when you touch it and you say, does that hurt?

And they say, yes, that's what it feels like.

That's what sex feels like.

That's what my UTIs feel like.

That's the tissue where it hurts.

You see their brains, their eyes, their bodies just sort of all of a sudden believe themselves.