Dr. Rachel Rubin

I will.

And then the other sad thing is I go out to my, you know, my bosses who were older seasoned, you know, OBGYNs and say, I've got Ms.

Smith and, you know, what do I say?

What do I do?

And now that I realize the platitudes that they were coaching me, you know, the dismissive condolences of, oh, honey, it's just your age or, oh, honey, go have some wine or, oh, just relax or let's get you to a psychiatrist or something.

Or,

You know, just anything but let's address the problem, what's going on.

I never learned the framework of addressing sexual dysfunction until I decided to open my menopause clinic.

And the magic is time.

And I think our current health care system is not set up to give people what they absolutely need and deserve is time.

Because your life, right, even a healthy person's life deserves more than a 10-minute visit once a year.

You deserve someone who knows you, who listens to you, who can really know kind of what you want, what your goals are.

And there's no time for that in the current medical system.

So it's kind of broken.

What I wish is that doctors would say, hey, this is broken.

I can't do this all today.

Here's your options.

Or here's someone down the street who actually does this.

And instead, there tends to be more dismissal.

Well, you must be crazy or it must be a psychological issue.