A conversation about the often lonely and difficult struggle for women’s health with an unremitting pioneer who will henceforth be committed to women’s health in the broadest sense, both nationally and internationally.
As a starting cardiologist, she didn’t know any better. Those women with their ailments, hassles, whining, weird complaints. She didn’t know how to deal with that. What she did know, women were anesthetized less often, heart complaints were recognized less often. In her doctor’s office, she regularly had no answers to patients’ questions, so she started reading about it in international studies.
Her interest in the treatment of women became more widely known and she ended up as a Dutch representative at the first worldwide conference on this in Vancouver.
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For example, I have tried to make the professional culture more female-friendly. If there’s one thing I’ve failed to do, it’s that. Still not