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Jen O'Doherty shares her personal experience with the gender credibility gap in healthcare and discusses the importance of women's health advocacy.

Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change:  https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810   This week on WKC Spill The Tea we sit down with Jen, a Menopause Awareness trainer, cancer charity volunteer, and mental health advocate, who experienced the credibility gap first-hand. She went to her GP with real symptoms and was asked if it was all in her head. It wasn't. Dismissed by her consultant, Jen was eventually diagnosed with Medullary Thyroid Cancer, a rare cancer and her journey since has transformed her into a powerful advocate for women's health.   In this honest, moving conversation, we explore: • The moment Jen was made to feel her symptoms weren't real and how she responded • What Medullary Thyroid Cancer is, • What treatment looked like, and what she wishes she'd known sooner • The often-overlooked connection between cancer treatment and menopause • Her work training workplaces in menopause awareness and volunteering with a menopause and cancer charity   Jen is raw, real, and utterly…

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