GynoCurious

Saskia Shakin, a beautiful Octogenarian, shares with us her insights into aging, health and beauty. How does your interior health reflect your outer beauty? What measures might you take to look well as the years pass and the body changes. Listen to a wise woman share her insights.

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Dr. Brian Bonetti from Northern Dutchess Hospital discusses his experience as a bariatric surgeon and an obesity specialist. He shares with us the science behind obesity and the many ways patients are challenged by their weight. He discusses treatments and healthcare for the person facing this difficult diagnosis.

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Allison Chawla shares with us her experience of being a perimenopausal woman and the physical, emotional and social changes that occur during this hormonally tumultuous time in vulva havers lives.

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What does it mean to be a resident in an OB-GYN residency? Meet Dr. Jaworski and learn why she chose to be an obstetrician-gynecologist and what her world looks like at Albany Medical Center.

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Rachel Fisch-Kaplan, bravely shares with us her experience with infertility and the eventual birth of her twins after many challenging medical interventions and emotionally challenging years.

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Dr. Lisa Curcio, MD, a breast specialist at Northern Dutchess Hospital, part of the Nuvance medical system, discusses all aspects of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, lifestyle issues and her own experience as a breast cancer patient and survivor.

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Dr. Lisa Curcio, MD, a breast specialist at Northern Dutchess Hospital, part of the Nuvance medical system, discusses all aspects of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, lifestyle issues and her own experience as a breast cancer patient and survivor.

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Produced by Jennifer Hammoud and Matty Rosenberg @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff

Allison Chawla shares with us her experience of being a perimenopausal woman and the physical, emotional and social changes that occur during this hormonally tumultuous time in vulva havers lives.

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Produced by Jennifer Hammoud and Matty Rosenberg @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff

Have you ever felt like you were the only one dealing with an unplanned pregnancy? Have you ever felt like the medical establishment was not listening to you, moving ahead without communicating the overall medical plan and then being swept up in an emergency delivery pre- term? Laurel St. Romain, shares with us her fears, frustrations and courage as she moved from keeping an unplanned pregnancy to the delivery of her daughter 6 weeks prematurely.

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Produced by Jennifer Hammoud and Matty Rosenberg

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Welcome Gynocurious listeners,

I am Dr. Amy Novatt, board certifiecd ob-gyn, your host of GynoCurious. With each program we are going to explore the experience of being an ob-gyn, the science that guides our practices and the stories women- cis, trans and nonbinary, have shared as they seek health and wellness. From both sides of the speculum we will investigate what it means to be a healer and to be healed.

I have been reflecting on 32 plus years of practice; thinking about all that I have learned, heard and thought about and wanted to bring it to a larger audience. This will not be a medical show that tells you how much estrogen you should take or the scientific method used to evaluate data but instead, a conversation about the larger canvas looking at what its like to be a medical professional working with women and how patients experience the world of ob-gyn.

What is it like sitting in the exam room with a thin sheet of paper covering your naked body? What has been the impact of a cancer diagnosis?

My intention is not to expose my patients personal histories but rather use their stories as stepping stones to explore many aspects of our bodies, our psyches and the landscape of the medical world.

In a time when most of us are frustrated by the American medical system; with the challenges of limited access, financial limitations, gender and racial discrepancies in care, the insurance morass and a host of other hurdles; my hope is that GynoCurious creates a community of guests and listeners that bring us all closer- to openly explore and understand the experience of illness and health and to break open decades of silence, misunderstanding and shame for having a vagina.

We are going to talk about our fears, sexual explorations and aging adventures with respect, inquiry and science.

For me, knowledge and awareness brings awe, authority and autonomy.

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Produced by Jennifer Hammoud and Matty Rosenberg