Dr. Rachel Rubin

I could deliver the shit out of a baby upside down, backwards, all in the middle of the night, one hand tie behind my back surgery.

Like I was trained so well how to take care of pregnant people and that's important.

I knew how to do a hysterectomy and basic gynecologic surgeries.

I could do vaginal procedure, you know, remove a cyst or drain a, you know, infected area or whatever.

But like, so I graduate and I go into my clinical practice and I'm super excited.

I hang up my shingle and I open the door and the women come in.

And if they're not pregnant, they're coming for gynecology or they're well woman in their checkups.

And I cannot tell you how many times I would blank stare at a patient and feel horrified that I didn't know how to help her.

that she was complaining of some type of sexual dysfunction that was affecting her life.

And let me just say, as a urologist, nobody expects me to take care of all of a man's health needs.

No man comes to see me for all of his medical care, and he shouldn't.

He should have several different doctors that take care of him.

So the mere fact that we...

have OBGYNs and they are expected to take care of a woman once a year for 15 minutes with your legs up in stirrups.

And that's medical care for the rest of your life is unconscionable.

And so women have to stop expecting their OBGYNs to know everything about their bodies because they simply don't.

Why does an OBGYN know about your heart?

I don't know about a man's heart as a urologist to the level that an OBGYN is expected to know about breast cancer and heart disease and bone health.

It makes no sense.

I absolutely agree.