Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Ral. Welcome back everybody to episode 114 of natural MD radio. Today I'm going to be

talking with Jennifer Block a journalist who just before Thanksgiving sent an email to me with a link to her latest article,

Doctors Are Not Gods, published in Scientific American.

I was incredibly excited to read this article in fact it's one of those articles when you read it

you're like I wish I wrote that she said so many things that I wanted to say by

Thanksgiving I was actually at that moment glad I hadn't

written the article because it blew up into a Twitter frenzy. Now this

article published on Scientific American was pulled by Scientific American and I felt myself just so

kind of one my heart going out for Jennifer because I know it's such a big deal

when you're in the middle of one of these kind of social media frenzies and

it's there's things that are backfiring on you and it gets really crazy and it can feel really bad.

But I also personally really relate to the debate that Jennifer's article raised on social

media and it really is relevant because for me it reflected so much on

this polarization that's happening amongst women who are concerned about

women's health.

So Jennifer, first of all, thank you for being here with me today

and letting me kind of like peel the scab a little bit

on this freshly healing wound.

I'm so grateful for you to be here and thank you for

taking the time. Thank you, Viva. I'm glad to be talking to you. Well it's

wonderful to have you. So before we dive in to the conversation and the

controversies that erupted can you tell my listeners about your beginnings as a

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