Listen to Her.
What happens when a woman knows something is wrong—but medicine doesn’t yet have an answer?
In Listen to Her, physician Angela Andrews, MD, explores what happens in the space between symptoms and answers, certainty and uncertainty, being evaluated and truly being heard.
Through the stories of women whose diagnoses were delayed, overlooked, or difficult to uncover—and her own experience becoming a patient inside the healthcare system she had spent years practicing in—Dr. Andrews examines why women can struggle to be heard in medicine and what can happen when clinicians choose curiosity over conclusions.
But this isn’t a book about blaming doctors or distrusting medicine. It’s about making medicine better.
Listen to Her helps women understand how to communicate what they’re experiencing, ask better questions, advocate for themselves without having to become their own doctor, and recognize when it may be time to keep looking for answers. It also challenges clinicians to remain curious when the story in front of them doesn’t fit neatly into what they expect.
Because sometimes the most important thing a clinician can do is simple:
Listen to her.
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