Everything from A to V podcast debunks myths around women’s health
7 September 2023 · Podcastinfo
Questions and myths around women’s health will be demystified in a new LiSTNR podcast hosted by women’s health advocate and GP, Dr Sneha Wadhwani, called Everything from A to V.
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"...it can be really challenging for women to source reliable, clinically accurate and evidence-based information outside of the consultation...."
It can be challenging for ALL to source such information outside the consultation.
At the same time, treatments do have side effects and the doctors shouldn't dismiss it as insignificant because the majority of patients do not suffer from side effects.
Consequently dismissal and passing off side effects may give rise to speculator podcasters who may exaggerate symptoms resulting in either patients stopping treatment or stop patients with a specific ailment from seeking proper medical advice not only from the doctor BUT also the pharmacist.
However, outside the medical universe, there may be social consequences of groups of people taking a particular medicine and copping side effects.
To illustrate, an Australian-educated commentator living in Texas, Dr Sydney Watson, PhD, not a medical doctor talked about her experience on the birth control pill which affected her medically and takes medication as the result of the alleged damage to her body by the birth control pill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvCOCXU_EuA&t=13
Many of the comments responding to the video talk about being prescribed the "pill" for non-birth control purposes and suffering side effects.
Relating this to the proposed podcast series, the video and its comments do raise valid concerns and such concerns could be discussed by the podcast doctors.
The doctors could (try) interview Dr Sydney Watson.
In summary, don't dismiss side effects experienced by a minority and include the other serious medical issues patients including the bowel and prostate glands.
Medicine is not an exclusive domain of women. I have known of males who experienced breast cancer. Don't dismiss or pass over the minority of patients who have suffered from that.
Thank you,
Anthony, Strathfield South, in the land of the Wangal and Darug Peoples of the Eora Nation.