About this episode

Nicole Kalil and Dr. Kemi Doll discuss the systemic failures in women's healthcare, particularly for Black women, highlighting medical bias and health inequity.

Let’s get something straight: women’s healthcare is broken. But not equally broken. In this unapologetically raw and necessary conversation, Nicole Kalil sits down with Dr. Kemi Doll — physician, gynecologic oncologist, researcher, and author of A Terrible Strength — to expose the systemic failures in gynecological care, especially for Black women. This isn’t a “wellness trends” conversation. This is about health inequity, medical bias, reproductive injustice, and the dangerous normalization of women’s pain. Because here’s the truth: when one group of women is dismissed, denied care, and dying at higher rates… it’s not just their problem. It’s a system-wide failure that impacts all of us. They break down: The systemic crisis in gynecology and why womb health is massively underfunded and under-researched Why conditions like fibroids, endometriosis, and uterine cancer are ignored The dangerous myth of the “strong Black woman” and how that “strength” is costing lives How medical bias and racism show up in real diagnoses, treatment delays, and mortality rates The difference between real health education vs. wellness industry BS How ALL women play a role in demanding better care This…

People in this episode

Host: Nicole Kalil

Guest: Dr. Kemi Doll

Topics covered

• women's healthcare
• medical bias
• health inequity
• gynecological care
• reproductive injustice
• systemic failures

Keywords

• gynecology
• healthcare
• Black women
• medical bias
• reproductive health
• systemic crisis
• women's pain

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Terrible Strength

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