Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.

This is the Words Matter Library.

Our guest today is a medical doctor on a mission to create a better medical internet.

Dr. Jen Gunter has been called Twier's resident gynecologist, the internet's OB-GYN.

He's a fierce advocate for women's health.

In addition to her academic publications, Dr. Gunter is a contributor to the New York Times

and her work has appeared in USA Today, The Hill, The Cut, and Self.

She's the author of a new book, The vagina Bible.

Dr. Jen Gunter, welcome to Words Matter.

Thank you so much for having me.

We're going to talk about your book and your work in a minute, but first let's talk about

you.

I read the story of how you decided to become a medical doctor when you were 11 and had

a skateboarding accident.

Talk about that and talk about how that experience changed you.

Sure.

I was, I think I was 10 when I had the accident.

I can't remember I was 10 or 11, but I had a skateboard and I fell.

I wasn't very good, but I thought I was.

So I fell on my back and it hurt really badly and I ruptured my spleen.

So my mother said it was my fault for falling.

So she just left me at home with my ruptured spleen.

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