when you have several years of medical treatment being done to you, you assume, especially with ob/gyn'ssive procedures that are done. i just assumed what he was telling me was the truth. i thought there would be a lot of other doctors that supported that. >> you think people protected him because he helped young gymnasts get better. >> he fixed my heels, shins, shoulder, wrist. i just assumed he was fixing me all the way through. >> this is a very dangerous dynamic. one that can play out in the locker room, the doctor's office, it's almost ripe for families with young children to see this film, to know what they need to know. >> absolutely. we have developed a program called courage first. it's part of a national screening tour. you can go to the website, and you can register to host the screening of this film, and have a discussion about how can we stop this from happening again. >> what conversations do you want parents to have with their children? >> what are the signs? what does grooming look like? we can probably speak to this. >> i think the best thing to do is listen to your chil

medicine refill, ob/gyn in pediatric village list, and it was in closed session where we then discussed the reports. >> thank you. any questions from commissioners the next item, please. >> i believe there was something brief to say. >> dr. colfax? >> i just wanted to also acknowledge the commission because of the leadership role that -- dr. alice chen, who knows the chief medical officer of the department. we weren't able to share this in writing for various reasons, but she is moving on from the department to be deputy director of health policy and chief medical officer at state and it is an amazing opportunity for her, at a huge honor for us to have her go work at the state level. i just want to acknowledge dr. chen's leadership and her many contributions to the health department. she has mentored many people in the department, and we will miss her very much, would just to really congratulate her. if i may be so bold, absolutely if the commission would be willing to determine her on her. thank you. >> we would do that and say yes to this secretary that we create a document that honou

you are an ob/gyn.nd fertility. >> in the world of ob/gyn there is a very strong connection between the two. we havvethsource of estrogen is, in fact, peripheral body fat so sudden dramatic weight loss absolutely can affect the monthly cycle, and we have to understand that this is where you want to be average. if you're too underweight or too overweight absolutely we can see effects on reproductive function and have to remember, you know, the function of a monthly cycle is to reproduce, prepare for pregnancy, support the growth of another human. if you lose too much weight your body says to itself, self, now is not the time, so there's a very clear connection. >> we often talk about the overweight side of this. we rarely talk about the underweight side of it. so i'm really glad we're hitting on this. tell us about the importance of the mind/body connection when it comes to losing weight. >> it's so important. i call it a holistic connection because there has to be -- you have to be in sync with those th

you might have wondered when i meant when i said if our children learning or this one when i said ob/gyn's can't spread their love with women everywhere. >> it's hysterical. >> and he didn't get worse, and he didn't start making gaffes when you're president. i'm not making any point. i'm not disagreeing with any of you. my only point is gaffes are sort of like a proof read they're reads a paper. it doesn't take away from sort of the beauty of an essay. it's a proof reader's job to take points for punctuation. it does not have voters process anyone full stop. and he may fail. he may come up short, but it will have nothing to do with what we talk about every day. >> i absolutely believe you. totally in agreement with that. the only other thought and then i'll shut up for a second is elizabeth warren, we keep thinking in terms of left and right and liberal ring and moderate wing. as i said on your show and i've said on your show too, i just think our conception of left and right and where people are on that scale is out of date. i think people are at a different place. it's on a different axi

[cheering and applauding] she is widely regarded as the internet ob/gyn working hard, prevalent myths about women's health that played social media. the author of the regina bible, myths from medicine. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you for having me. i'm so nervous to be holding p pen, white leather chair. i'm going to because over here. i adore this book and i outdoor you. i love "the vagina bible". >> i want that, too. all of you go and buy this book. i want to start by saying, i'm interested in how the transition can blow. >> before i had my own pregnancy, i never thought as much about the patient experience. when i had my break obligated pregnancy, triplet pregnancy, two of them were in the intensive care unit for a long time. i have cerebral palsy and heart problems, i needed surgery and i thought, how do people manage? i found my self in the intensive care unit waiting with other parents and helping them interact and they would, and understand what happens. they'd say i think that document this. they were all so close to making a connection but not quite there. afte