Hi everyone this is Shreya. So back in episode 28 I told you guys about a women in medicine conference called Girl Med Media that I had the pleasure to speak at and interviewed the other women speakers.

I asked them first, what would you tell your younger self, which was all episode 28, so go check that out?

And secondly, I asked them about their stories.

And so over the past few months, I have worked with Gabby Mayer and MS4 at NYU, understanding and analyzing the experiences that stuck out most in their mind about being a woman in medicine.

Gabby does a lot of the behind the scenes work in CoreI am on the Instagram page and the Twelby Thursday graphics.

So I am very excited to sponsor her and give her the center stage.

And with that, I will leave you in her very capable hands.

Thank you, Shreya.

I am absolutely thrilled to be here to talk about what's one of my favorite topics,

which is the intersection of gender and medicine.

But before I dive in, I do want to take a moment to give a quick

preface. We're going to be discussing the experience of womanhood and medicine, predominantly

from the perspective of our interviewees, all of whom are practicing physicians, and all of whom self-identify as women.

I want to acknowledge that this is a narrow sample group and is not representative of all women.

The experience of being a woman is broad and complex.

It encompasses folks who don't identify on a gender binary.

Those who feel that these designations of women or man can't fully capture who they are as people.

So while today's interviews may not be comprehensive, I do hope that this podcast is going to serve as a starting point

for, a much larger conversation about how gender relates to

our work as clinicians. Okay, on to the main event. As Shreya mentioned, we'll be stepping away from clinical medicine for today.

But since old habits do die hard,

we'll still be using a case-based approach to guide us,

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