Dr. Tara Narula

You walked in here and you were like, well, I just saw 17 patients and now I'm here.

What?

Yeah, I just took the subway from my office in Midtown.

But yeah, I see patients like three and a half days a week and it's a full, full schedule.

They are, but, Tamsen, not as much as they need to.

I think we just talked about the fact that it's the leading cause of death for both men and women in this country.

And especially for women, we tend to think a lot about the bikini zone, so the breasts and the ovaries and the uterus.

And we just don't think about our hearts as being something that we need to pay attention to, listen to.

you know, focus on.

And that's a real problem.

So I'm hoping that more women will start to recognize they need to pay attention to their heart.

Well, we have failed them in terms of the medical profession.

And we say that women have been understudied, underdiagnosed, undertreated.

And that is a reality.

If a woman goes to the hospital in the emergency room with chest pain, more often than not, she's not going to receive guideline-appropriate management.

She's going to get told that she has anxiety.

I had a patient who went to the hospital with chest pain and was sent home and told, you know, it's in your mind, you're stressed out.

And then her blood test came back positive and, you know, she'd had a heart attack.

So it is partially the failure of the medical profession.

And we are trying to rectify that and catch up.