Cynthia McFadden

We wanted to interview famous women who were suffering from IBS and IBD specifically, but We couldn't find anybody that was willing to do an interview about IBS.

And we couldn't find anyone who was well-known with IBD as a woman other than maybe a couple people who were well-known, one of which is a lovely former colleague of mine, Cynthia McFadden, a well-known journalist who... has IBD and she was like, sign me up.

But we needed more than Cynthia and we couldn't find anybody.

So we're hoping that this book is going to, I don't know, like rip the bandaid off like we've done with perimenopause and done with infertility and other issues that are important to talk about, especially for women.

I mean, I'm the older generation here, but yeah, we just don't talk about it.

So what do you do? You know, what's your secret to disarm people, to get them to open up, whether it's on your podcast when you're interviewing or whether they're in your exam room for those lucky enough to be your patient?

I'm sure it's very similar to what you do, right? I talk about any sexual problem like I would talk about anything, right? Like high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol.

Like I talk about it like it's just a normal thing that we take care of.

I don't know if that's too much of an out there question or if I'm getting myself over my head here, but I just get a sense that you have a different spin.

I

think there is, you know, there's valid in the research that women spend more time in the clinic room with their patients.

There's some data on this.

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People forget John Wooden actually took a few years to get UCLA rolling.

We're all impatient.

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