About this episode

Dr. Kemi Doll discusses the importance of womb care and the impact of uterine cancer on Black women's health.

Hey lady! This week Dr. Dom and Terri welcome Dr. Kemi Doll, a physician, surgeon, researcher, advocate and author of A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb & Your Survival Guide to Healing to sit down and talk to us about the importance of caring for our wombs at all stages of life. Dr. Kemi provides an insightful and informative lens as to how the impact of adequate care – and the neglect of such care – can shape Black women’s reproductive health and overall quality of life. Far too often, Black women’s reproductive health is reduced to the facilitation of producing babies and little more. However, there is a vast array of reproductive issues that affect Black women and those issues are not given the spotlight that they need – particularly uterine cancer, the fastest growing cancer in Black women. Dr. Kemi gives a historical review of how we collectively arrived to a place where not only is Black women’s maternal health in peril, but we are now facing aggressive concerns in other womb matters. The good news is that with once you are armed with good information you can turn those debilitating aches and pains into a plan…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dr. Dom, Terri

Guest: Dr. Kemi Doll

Topics covered

• uterine cancer
• reproductive health
• Black women
• health advocacy
• maternal health

Keywords

• uterine cancer
• Black women health
• reproductive issues
• health advocacy
• maternal health

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb & Your Survival Guide to Healing

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