Dr. Vonda Wright

XY, male, were better under the same circumstances in making bone.

So down to a cellular level, we express our genes differently.

It should be no mystery to us or anybody else that there are differences.

And yet,

But there is the propensity just to lump us all in the same basket and almost say, I almost sometimes feel as pejorative to say, oh, the women are different.

Of course they're different.

We're genetically different.

Down to every cell in our body.

Every cell.

So it should be no surprise to anybody.

But it seems to be a surprise.

But this is pervasive, not just an OB.

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.