Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast · Nemours Children's Health

Ep. 185: Trust, Access and Action: Dr. Curry-Winchell on Clinicians Who Care

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A woman on the list found a gynecologist and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer after years of dismissal.

1. Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast spotlights Dr. Bio Curry-Winchell’s work on trust, access, and patient advocacy. 2. Host Carol Vassar interviews Dr. Bio Curry-Winchell, a family medicine physician, social media influencer, podcaster, and founder of Beyond Clinical Walls. 3. The episode asks how clinicians can help patients stand up for themselves and find doctors who listen. 4. Curry-Winchell says her health equity and health literacy work now extends “behind the scenes” through health advocacy. 5. She says her public presence on television and online helps humanize her as a doctor and build trust with patients. 6. She stresses that practicing medicine is central to her identity and that she is headed to back-to-back hospital shifts after the interview. 7. She says authenticity matters because she can only share health information credibly if she is actively seeing patients. 8. Curry-Winchell explains that clinicianswhocare.com began after she shared her own story of being dismissed, then later diagnosed with lupus and a clotting disorder. 9. She describes the site as a patient crowdsource community where people submit positive notes about doctors who listened and believed them. 10. She says the platform is not a trash list and compares the idea to a trusted recommendation network rather than a complaint board. 11. She gives the example of a woman who used one of her videos about postpartum preeclampsia to recognize symptoms eight days after delivery. 12. That patient went to Curry-Winchell’s clinic, and the symptoms were consistent with postpartum preeclampsia. 13. Curry-Winchell says women often second-guess symptoms, delay care, or feel they should not bother a doctor. 14. She argues that women’s health includes Alzheimer’s, dementia, hypertension, menopause, and childbirth, not only reproductive care. 15. She cites Ambien as an example of how medications studied mostly in men can be dosed differently for women. 16. She says health literacy can scale through videos, articles, and 30-to-60-second social clips that reach millions. 17. She tells physicians that online visibility does not erase credibility and can strengthen trust with patients and communities. 18. She warns that AI and digital tools can perpetuate inequities if they ignore people’s real access, income, and community context. 19. The interview is conversational and supportive, with Vassar reacting in real time to examples and asking follow-up questions about advocacy, technology, and partnerships. 20. Listeners interested in patient advocacy, women’s health, and clinician communication will get the most from it. 21. Listeners wanting a dense clinical or technical lecture may skip it.

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A steady case for meeting people where they already are online.

Dr. Bio Curry Winchell and Carol Vassar frame a practical question: how health information can travel beyond the exam room and still land in a form people can use.

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For when you want a clinician's take on health literacy, social media, and getting care ideas out of the exam room.

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