Barbara says attributing complaints strictly due to anxiety is not respectful.
Transcript
I think doctors need to start listening. They need to start taking things, especially women’s diseases a little more seriously. The days of being – of having anxiety and ending up in the hospital are over. The reason why we have anxiety – there is a reason why we have anxiety and there is a reason why we feel the way that we feel and doctors have to start listening. They have to [sighs] – doctors have to get past themselves and stop thinking that they’re gods because they’re not. They are professionals who need to treat us with the respect that we’re due.
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