Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
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He's like, maybe she has endometriosis.
Maybe he or she is even thinking about this.
But what do they do?
They give birth control, right?
And the patient doesn't know why.
She goes home and someone tells her, if you take birth control, you're going to be infertile.
So she doesn't take it because her grandmother tells her that.
And then she continues to have pain and starts bouncing from doctor to doctor.
A lot of these patients, believe it or not, end up in GI offices getting colonoscopies at a young age.
Like if you have to do a colonoscopy for pain in a 22-year-old child,
Make sure you're not missing endometriosis.
So it's like you have to teach all these doctors.
So doctors don't have time.
They don't diagnose these patients.
And they start bouncing from doctor to doctor.
How can we fix this?
And insurance will pay for these visits.
But you need to be empowered.
You need to be educated.
And you need to be your own health.