The Visit Nobody Wants
A Note Before We Begin
My mom called me last month and asked if I'd gotten my mammogram.
I turned 40 this year. And I hadn't even thought about scheduling it.
Let me say that again: I am an OB/GYN. I have spent my entire career telling women to get their screenings. I have literally held a speculum in one hand and a referral form in the other and said the words don't put this off. And when my own mother asked me a simple question about a simple screening, I froze. Because I hadn't done it. Hadn't scheduled it. Hadn't even opened the patient portal.
It was an out-of-body moment. The kind where you float above yourself and watch your own hypocrisy in real time.
This is the visit nobody wants to talk about. And it's the visit everyone needs.
The complete book — all 19 chapters — arrives July 2026.
What's inside
- The Well Woman Visit Is Broken
- The Screenings That Changed
- Your Heart Is Not Your PCP's Problem
- Your Gynecologist Is Your Secret Psychiatrist
- The iPad Nobody Reads
- The Question They Ask With Him In The Room
- The Visit Nobody Wants
- The Mammogram Rules Just Changed
- You're 40, Single, and Need the HPV Vaccine
- The STIs We Aren't Talking About
- The IUD Pain Epidemic
- By the Time You're 65, It's Too Late
- 45 Is the New 50
- Before You're Pregnant
- The Great Menopause Renaissance
- The AMH Trap
- How Long Between Babies
- How to Talk to Your Gynecologist
- The 'Free' Annual Exam Trap
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