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Doctors Dismiss You? Learn To Advocate For Your Health NOW! #shorts

8 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, Dr. Tabatha Barber recounts her personal experience of being dismissed by medical providers despite being a physician, highlighting how she was able to advocate for herself. Recognizing that many women lack the knowledge or confidence to do the same, she created a handbook—her book, The Postpartum Check-In—aimed at women who intuitively sense something is wrong after childbirth or hormonal shifts but are dismissed by well‑meaning providers. The book explains the wide‑ranging bodily changes that occur with hormone fluctuations, clarifies what symptoms warrant attention, and guides readers on how to catch emerging health problems early, preventing years of delayed diagnosis and suffering while avoiding unnecessary over‑medicalization of childbirth and hormone transitions.

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In my own experience, I have felt dismissed by medical providers, and because I'm a physician, I could advocate for myself. But not everybody can say that, and not everybody knows what they need to ask for. So I said to myself, hey, I'm going to make a handbook for women who feel intuitively that something's not right with their health, but they, they've been dismissed by their providers— well-meaning providers, right? We don't want to over-medicalize women and childbirth and hormone shifts, but that sometimes comes at the expense of catching very real health conditions. So I wrote this book, The Postpartum Check-In, to help women understand what's changing everywhere else in my body when my hormones change and what do I need to be on the lookout for so that I could catch an emerging health problem earlier rather than having to wait a year or 10 years to get a diagnosis that's causing suffering in the meantime. Absolutely.