Hey Alyssa. Hey Sam. How are you? I'm feeling like my eyes are already watering. What is wrong with me these days?

Why? Because I'm feeling like excited about 2020. I woke up in a great mood. I feel like I have great friends, great family.

I don't know. Oh wow. This is I think the quickest eye water will come.

How are you? Making my eyes water. Just looking at you. Yeah I'm good. Today is officially the new year for us.

I mean by the time that these are going out obviously it's gonna have been the new year. Yeah.

But it's fresh. It's fresh for us. Yeah. I actually did you stay up for the countdown?

Um we were like up but we weren't like I heard fireworks and I was like happy New Year's babe.

That was pretty much the end of it. It wasn't like a thing. Married life. Yeah pretty much. Yeah.

Are you ready? I am ready. All right. This little sorry. That was long intro. It was.

Is that show you know?

Do you want to do you want to kick this off? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So today's episode was actually sparked like a long time ago.

I feel anyway. I was in the walk-in clinic and I was reading readers' digest and if some of you remember

Sam really made fun of me for reading readers' digest back in season one. And look how that's come to fruition for us.

Yeah exactly. So you're welcome. And I was reading this story about a woman named Katie Lutciani I think is how you pronounce her name.

And she was talking about her experience with endometriosis and how she was misdiagnosed. For years and years she lived with this like immense pain and

and doctors just kept sending her away. And it really got me thinking. And this was like before the podcast was even out.

And I wrote it down in my notes. And then Sam had come across another thing in the similar vein. And so we decided to talk about

the ways in which you know sometimes doctors have wronged us. Yeah. And I kind of want to preface this episode by saying I do have immense respect for the medical community.

Of course. I do like I can't even fathom the amount of education and dedication and emotional strain

that being like anyone in the medical. Yeah. So I do want to say that. But I do think that it's crazy how many times I at least have been wronged.

Yeah. Well, and it was interesting case. So I was I was doing some like research about like the racial disparity in terms of healthcare.

And then started reading you know some studies about like gender equality issues within like a healthcare and how healthcare is being provided.

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