In Hysterics Dr Suba

This week, in our season finale (!!!), Dr Suba talks with Miss Christine Ekechi. Christine is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, specialising in early pregnancy and acute gynaecology. She wears many hats and one of them is as co-chair of the race equality task force for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Christine tells us about what brought her to a career in O+G and the winding path she took to becoming a consultant. We talk about the work being done through the race equality task force, the important of rebuilding trust as clinicians with patient groups that have many reasons to be mistrustful of healthcare spaces and discuss how we break down barriers to help everyone better navigate their health journeys.

In our short we give you the inside scoop of how to put your best foot forward in healthcare spaces.

Sharpen your pencils and open those notebooks, class is in session y’all!

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This week Dr Suba talks with Dr Tina Mistry, a psychologist with an interest in trauma-informed care and maternal mental health. She uses her platform to share her knowledge and bring diversity to the Eurocentric healthcare system.

We expand the conversation past perinatal mental health and explore what factors affect women’s mental health and how we can look after it.

In our short, we learn about hysteria – the ‘uniquely female madness’.

Now, where’s that magic wand …

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This week Dr Suba talks with Amirah Zaky. Amirah has lived experience of vaginismus, with the pain and difficulties of it bringing her marriage to the brink of divorce. She managed to overcome it and now supports and guides other women through their own journeys with vaginismus.

Amirah tells us her story, we discuss all the damaging beliefs around sex that we had growing up and talk about how important it is to understand our bodies and how integral sex is to all our lives.

In our short we get into how female sexuality has been and still is policed and how women are reclaiming their sexual selves.

We REALLY need to talk ...

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This week Dr Suba talks with Gabby Edlin. Gabby is a menstrual equity activist and founder of Bloody Good Periods – a charity providing period products to whoever needs it. Especially in current times, period poverty is becoming increasingly common and BGP are a lifeline to many.

Gabby shares her story behind setting up BGP and we get into cultural period taboos, how to overcome them and find out about the great educational work that BGP are doing.

In our short we do a round-up of the latest period news from tampon tax to period poverty solutions around the world.

Period-normativity please!

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This week Dr Suba talks with Emma Brockwell. Emma is a physio who after her own personal experiences with pelvic floor issues dived into the world of pelvic floor health. She is now a pelvic health physio with a specialist interest in helping those returning to running and exercise post-partum and uses her platform, @physiomumUK, to educate on pelvic floor health.

She tells us about her own journey towards pelvic floor health, teaches us how to 1) avoid constipation, which is KEY, and 2) how to actually do pelvic floor exercises. Along the way we chat about how common incontinence and prolapse is, explore the stigma around it and challenge the idea that there’s nothing to be done about leaks and bulges.

In our short, we get stuck into the pelvic mesh scandal, ask why it took so long for women to be listened to and break down the recent long-awaited ‘First Do No Harm’ report by Baroness Cumberlege.

Do it with me y’all - SQUEEZE, HOLD AND COUNT TO TEN!

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This week Dr Suba talks with Sarah Sharp. Sarah is a chronic illness blogger with a passion for honesty, education and inclusivity. She fights to make the menstrual health community a more open and inclusive place for everyone who needs it through her platform @endo_the_world.

She takes us through her journey with endo, from first realizing that something wasn’t right all the way up to her post-laparoscopy appointment, which was literally on the day we recorded. We learn about how to advocate for yourself, why education is everything and how important community is along the way.

In our short we trash the idea that period pain is something you just have to get on with and find out how women have led the charge with transforming access to information, built support networks and challenged HCPs to do better around chronic pelvic pain.

To be in so much pain that you can’t function is never normal.

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