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Reclaiming "Brown Girls Disease": Dr. Sameena Rahman on Walking Away From aSystem That Dismissed Women, and Building Her Own
There's a phrase some clinicians used for South Asian women with vaginismus or who couldn't tolerate a pelvic exam: "brown girls disease." Dr. Sameena Rahman is putting it on the cover of her first book instead of letting it stay a slur. The same instinct — reclaiming what a broken system got wrong — is what led her to walk away from 11 years of insurance-based gynecology and build GSM, her own concierge practice in Chicago.