In this brief dialogue, Lindsey Burwell addresses women who feel disempowered during medical consultations, highlighting the problem of lacking authority in health decisions. She urges listeners to seek additional opinions and emphasizes the importance of shared decision-making in contemporary healthcare, where clinicians present multiple options rather than dictating a single path.
For any woman who's listening that either you've gone through a scary situation where you're speaking with doctors and you feel like you don't have authority in your decision-making, I think that is a problem.
That's when a woman needs to walk with her feet and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. I think it's— You need another opinion. We are now in a time in healthcare which we need to have shared decision-making. There's multiple choices. If I have a patient that can go either way with a decision, I don't tell her what to do. I give them the options and say, These are the choices that you have.
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