Melinda French Gates

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932 appearances 10 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 14 Jun

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Like she's dealing with metabolic issues in her body and yet we're not helping her with the right information or the right services.

Because the medical system, we often overlook what women are telling us about their bodies.

We're often quite biased or the way they're treated, particularly if you say the huge number of women dying in the United States are black.

Black women die at two to three times the rate in childbirth than a white woman.

Well, what's happening to her?

I was down in Louisiana visiting many clinics late last year.

I was just in Tuscaloosa, Alabama visiting clinics.

And what happens is they go into the system and the system doesn't listen to what's actually going on with them.

And they will sometimes turn them away and say, go home.

I met a woman who she was turned away and said, oh, yes, you're late in your third trimester, but you're okay.

She calls back in.

24 hours later, she still is in trouble.

And do you know, in the end, by the time she got into the hospital, she lost that baby because no one listened to the symptoms she was having.

That just shouldn't be.

And so we need to catch women in our system and listen to them and get them the health services they need.

And these days that includes mental health.

right?

We're seeing a huge number of women who are falling into anxiety and also depressed after they have a baby.

That postpartum depression is a real thing.

And if you don't catch them until that first checkup for their child, they're too far into the depression.

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