{"id":926,"date":"2018-11-29T08:36:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2018-11-29T08:36:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:36:01","slug":"my-doctor-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"My doctor visits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve had two recent visits with doctors — to write features on them. My interview with Dr Wendell Bobb<\/a>, a US-educated Trini neurologist living in Washington, DC, was published in the Newsday <\/a>yesterday. Last week my interview with Dr Sarah St Louis<\/a>, a Florida urogynaecologist with TT roots, also appeared in Newsday.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Sarah St Louis is a urogynaecologist — she medically and surgically treats women’s pelvic floor problems, like a urologist only for women. Photo: Lisa Allen-Agostini.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I love medicine. I think, had I more discipline and a head for maths, I would have studied to be a psychiatrist or neurologist myself. (I joke that I watch so much medical TV — some documentaries but mostly medical procedurals like House <\/em>and Grey’s Anatomy —<\/em> that I practically have a degree in TV medicine anyway.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also enjoy doing health reporting, and serving women especially. Both stories did that. Dr Sarah told me about women’s incontinence<\/a>, a topic that affects so many women but which is not often discussed. Dr Wendell told me about epilepsy and the importance of women with epilepsy<\/a> planning their pregnancies.
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I’ve had two recent visits with doctors — to write features on them. My interview with Dr Wendell Bobb, a US-educated Trini neurologist living in Washington, DC, was published in the Newsday yesterday. Last week my interview with Dr Sarah St Louis, a Florida urogynaecologist with TT roots, also appeared in Newsday. I love medicine. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[206,205,48,61],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-column","tag-health","tag-health-journalism","tag-journalism","tag-trinidad-and-tobago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}