I mean, if a patient came to me and they were hemorrhaging to death in the hospital, I mean, I'm going to treat them.

I'm not going to say, no, I can't treat you because you shouldn't have had this abortion.

Welcome to Sex, Body and Soul. I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the Body Agency. And on this show, we talk about the marvel that is our bodies, what they can do and what they need to thrive.

Ladies out there, our time is now. Let's get to it. Many of you are aware of my passion behind

looking into the disparities amongst healthcare for minorities in America and all over the world.

And our next guest is Dr. Tamika Cross, who is a board-certified OBGYN, graduated from the

University of Michigan and went to medical school at May-Harrie Medical College and also completed

her residency training as a gynecologist at the

University of Texas. So I'm thrilled to welcome onto the show, Dr. Tamika Cross.

Good morning, Dr. Cross. Welcome to the show. Good morning. Thank you for having me.

Well, I'm absolutely thrilled to have you. I have been devouring your book. Congratulations.

Thank you.

I would love to know what drove you to writing this book, which, by the way, everybody, this book is called What a Doctor looks like.

There is a beautiful image of Dr. Cross on the cover.

And it's society's unrealistic dreams or your attainable goals.

So why'd you write the book?

So I'm a few different reasons.

So I've always written, not published anything, but I've always written my entire life.

And I think what really drove me to actually publish a book and publish my story was when I had

an incident on a plane that went viral when I was barred from helping an unresponsive passenger on the

plane. And so after that happened and I

shared my story publicly, I saw how many people that it truly resonated with that had had

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