The gaps in female healthcare with Dr Erica Montes

Sex, Body, and Soul

Kate Roberts

Education, Relationships, Sexuality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Dr Montes brings a wealth of experience in minimally invasive surgical procedures. She completed her residency with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center training at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Texas. A Board Certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist and a Fellow of the American College of OB/GYN. Dir.. Montes is fluent in both Spanish and English. Dr. Montes embraces her relationship with patients having recognized the gap especially within Hispanic communities. To that end she started a Spanish speaking blog "Modern Mujer" (Modern Women). We discuss the gaps in female healthcare especially with minorities and Spanish speakers, also the barriers.

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0:00.0	these diseases, especially cervical cancer, breast cancer disproportionately affect my community.
0:06.6	I mean, our cervical cancer rate is actually 44% higher than our white population.
0:13.5	And so I think, again, a lot of it has to do with lack of access to care.
0:18.7	Welcome to Sex, Body and Soul.
0:21.2	I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the Body Agency,
0:24.2	and on this show, we talk about the marvel that is our bodies,
0:28.3	what they can do and what they need to thrive.
0:31.4	Ladies out there, our time is now.
0:34.2	Let's get to it.
0:36.3	Our next guest is Dr. Erica Montes, who is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist and creator.
0:44.0	She attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio
0:50.0	and was elected one of the chief residents in her last year of residency at the largest program in the country at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
0:59.2	Aside from being a full-time physician and a medical blotter, she is the mama to three beautiful boys who keep her very grounded.
1:06.2	We are also thrilled to have Dr. Montes serving on the Body Agency's medical board.
1:13.4	Dr. Erica Montez, welcome to the show.
1:16.6	Thank you so much, Kate.
1:17.7	I'm happy to be here.
1:18.8	We are so excited to have you and excited about all the work that we have been doing together so far.
1:26.0	It is amazing when women come together what we can actually
1:31.1	accomplish and quickly juggling our families, juggling our jobs, and you are definitely somebody
1:36.9	who does all that very, very well. So we're thrilled to have you on the show and tell us a little
1:43.3	bit about you. Where are you based? What do you do? And who are you?
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