... must always update yourself, and then you must listen to people who understand this, their field of expertise.

Yeah, I think it's, it's okay to be a provider that says, "I don't know," and it, it might be something says, "I don't know.

Let me find out and see if I can talk to colleagues that maybe know better that can help us in this context." It might be that this is out of my field of expertise.

Sometimes I have patients ask me incredible things about things that I r- I really don't know about, and just because I think we have a baseline trust, right? So I, I don't wanna lead them astray.

Um, and so I th- I think, you know, it's okay to say, "Hey, you know, I, I said this thing five years ago.

I am learning, you know? I, I am human.

I am a, I'm a provider, and a lot of how I, I deliver my care is, is through experience, lived experience, and a lot of how you receive care is through your lived experience, and I'm just trying to connect with you here and make sure that I don't do any harm, make sure that I am as up-to-date as I can." Um, you know, I don't have PubMed in my head, right? So, [laughs] so if a new article came out and someone brings it to me, amazing.

[laughs]

If someone has an endometrioma, how worried should they be about their fertility?

Fertility is impacted by so many things.

This is just one thing, right? And so I do ...

You know, I think we caution the way that, you know, w- I feel like as providers, we always wanna save patients heartache that we know could come to them down the road.

Um, and so when I have a patient with endometriosis, say they're 25, and I know they have, I don't know, stage two endometriosis, I say, "Okay, don't worry.

Um, I'm gonna monitor you.

Let's watch." And let's say I'm ...

Mm.