When doctors ignore your pain: Dr Belinda Coker on self-advocacy

Big Fat Negative: TTC, fertility, infertility and IVF

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Parenting, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Gabby and Emma are joined by Dr Belinda Coker, the founder of Your Trusted Squad, to talk about how it feels to be a doctor whose pain is ignored by other doctors, and why she started Your Trusted Squad, her fertility concierge service. Meanwhile, Liz is tackling the thorniest question there is: what's the point?

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0:00.0	Hello, you're listening to BFN.
0:07.0	This is the podcast about infertility, IVF and the trials are trying for a baby.
0:15.0	I'm Emma and I'm Gabby and we're two card-caring members of the infertility club.
0:23.0	Hi guys, how's it going?
0:32.0	How's it going to you?
0:34.0	I'm going well.
0:36.0	It's a fucking hot day today isn't it?
0:39.0	It's the hottest day of...
0:42.0	I mean it's the hottest day of the year but it feels like the hottest day may be ever.
0:46.0	Yeah, I didn't know, I didn't know.
0:49.0	Do you know when the hottest day of the year is coming, generally you know about it.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:54.0	We had tomorrow's the hottest day of the year, blah, blah, blah and you make plans.
0:57.0	I didn't realise and it hit me, side-swiped me and I just wasn't really prepared.
1:05.0	My weather app said it's going to be 23 degrees today.
1:08.0	It wasn't 23 degrees.
1:10.0	It's considerably higher than that.
1:12.0	Yeah, 23.
1:13.0	I had visitors.
1:14.0	So we had visitors that arrived yesterday, stayed overnight, left this morning.
1:18.0	There's visitors that arrived this afternoon and obviously people that come to visit you
1:24.0	when you live by the beach, they want to go to the beach.
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