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On Health for Women

40 Celeste Fine - Advocating for Yourself and Your Babies

On Health for Women

Aviva Romm

Alternative Health, Arts, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes a doctor's opinion can feel like the final say, but it isn't. Today Aviva talks to colleague Celeste Fine about being your own advocate. “What just happened is that doctor sat in that room and connected the dots between those exams and his interpretation of those exams, and he was telling a narrative that made sense for him.” - Celeste Fine Join Dr. Aviva Romm as she dishes up a weekly dose of the whole truth on health and medicine. To learn more about this episode of Natural MD Radio go to www.avivaromm.com/040

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0:15.7

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.

0:17.8

I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. Joining me today is a personally special guest because Celeste Fine is not only a colleague, but she's my book agent.

0:35.0

And in working together, I got to know some very important facts

0:40.0

and experiences that Celeste shared with me that I think are so important for you to hear today as listeners.

0:47.0

Celeste is known for her reputation as negotiating six and seven figure book deals for high profile authors with big ideas and strong

0:56.3

platforms.

0:57.3

Celeste's goal is to have big ideas that make a big impact in print.

1:02.4

Her clients include New York Times bestsellers, many of whom I'm sure

1:06.1

you have read, including Sarah Gottfried, Isabella Wents, Susan Albers, Kelly Ann Petruki, father of natural and naturopathic

1:16.9

medicine and founder of Bastier University,

1:19.0

Joseph Pazorno, Amanda Steinberg,

1:21.8

who's the founder of The Daily Worth, and also a first female four-star

1:26.8

general Ann Dunwoody.

1:28.8

But today we're not here to talk about an

1:35.0

Celeste's career and her accomplishments in her professional world.

1:35.8

We're here to talk about an experience that Celeste had

1:39.4

that was so compelling to listen to. And as a midwife and a physician I've seen so many

1:47.8

things happen where patients have received wrong diagnoses thankfully not from me but in hospital systems that I've worked in, I've

1:56.0

seen people not get a second opinion when a second opinion could have changed their life or

2:01.2

been life saving.

2:02.8

And I've also seen how hard it is

2:05.3

to have to sort of become your own doctor in a way

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