Dr. Vonda Wright

You are not the only guilty.

It's everywhere.

for lack of better words, blowing women off, right?

For not having the curiosity that defines medicine.

We are supposed to be curious people, but yet when it comes to this, why do we stop at just seems to be something that happens to middle-aged women, right?

That's written in the orthopedic literature, seems to happen to middle-aged women.

Where's the curiosity, right?

And they come to me almost to a woman.

after I'm talking about whatever musculoskeletal thing, they'll say, even before they want to describe it to me, they'll say, but you know, I have a really high pain tolerance.

Like it's a badge because we've been conditioned to not come for any pain, but I've suffered.

I've tried.

That's why your arm doesn't move anymore.

I've got such a high pain tolerance, but I couldn't take it anymore.

I didn't want to come.

And I feel like, why does it have to be that way?

I don't think I was aware of it.

Yeah.

There was just, that's.

So much bias.

Yeah.