There was no warmth. There was no nothing. And I'm just, I literally have like, you know, the paper, the paper little nap

gown and just pulled it up. I'm like, uh, well, uh, and I was like, I never want to see her ever again.

Welcome to another episode of Hot and Bothered with Melissa Ford.

I am your host, Melissa Ford.

And today's guest is going to help me answer some hard pressing questions that I have had

and that some of my friends have expressed to me.

Recently, I went to visit a brand-new OB-G-Y-N and had to get a regular physical and pap smear,

and I specifically chose to find a black woman as the gynecologist because I felt like, you know, we would have

an automatic kind of symbiotic exchange with one another. And that was not what happened.

It was probably one of the worst experiences that I've ever had dealing with a medical

health professional. And it left me asking several questions as to why that might have been,

what was the purpose of, you know, how sterile and perfunctory that she came off.

I want to ask him about that, and I also want to ask about the economic disparities

that black women and black families face when it comes to the medical industry.

I want to talk a little bit about medical racism.

That term, it's origin point and whether or not it's still something that black people face whenever they find themselves needing medical intervention.

That and a host of so much more.

So please help me in welcoming Dr. Babaloa, Olafemi, Janaduk.

So I'm sitting with my guest today who our initial conversation turned into a marathon

convoy on the phone.

It was instant synergy, interests aligned.

I was so excited after I got off the phone with you just simply because of your excitement at the topics of conversation that I wanted to have.

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