Dr. Vonda Wright
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16 recordings
9 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 2 Jul
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one of the main points that I try to translate is that they have to become completely literate in midlife and what's happening to them.
They need to be able to converse in the
Because gone are the days when the paternalistic era of doctor knows everything.
Gone are those days.
It was over when I was training, right?
So I think people need to be as educated as they possibly can.
But the reality is...
Only about 7% of all medical schools cover menopause at all.
And only 30% of all OB-GYN residencies cover menopause at all.
And I can tell you as an orthopedic surgeon, it was never brought up.
Even these associations with musculoskeletal tissue and estrogen.
So that's why I think women have to be completely literate.
So how is this information being disseminated?
Well, people are reading the papers.
They're downloading it.
There's a group of us shouting from every mountaintop trying to educate people.
We're doing big CME events to try to educate thousands of doctors because they certainly don't get it in their own medical schools.
And I'm thankful for podcasts and the popular press that are picking up the mantle of talking about 40 years of a woman's life that were never talked about before.
I think it's going to take all of this.
Plus, it's going to take a tremendous, almost insurmountable amount of catching up with the research because women's health research is vastly behind.
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