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Overlooked: Women's Health Can't Wait

Overlooked: Women's Health Can't Wait

Golda Arthur 59 episodes Nov 10, 2026

Overlooked is an award-winning women's health podcast hosted by journalist Golda Arthur. It features immersive personal stories and conversations about women's health, exploring topics such as ovarian cancer, menopause, endometriosis, motherhood, and survivorship. The podcast aims to empower women by helping them advocate better for themselves, highlighting where inequality is felt most deeply.

Episodes

When the ambulance becomes the delivery room, with Elizabeth Travis
When the ambulance becomes the delivery room, with Elizabeth Travis Nov 10, 2026 27:03 ‘Maternity deserts’ are areas with little or no support in obstetric services, and they’re slowly expanding in the US, as labor and delivery units close down. This leaves expectant mothers with only one option if they need help: calling 9-1-1. Elizabeth Travis is a paramedic who has studied this issue and she talks to Golda about why paramedics need more training in birth and delivery, and how the
What Brittany Chaffee wishes she’d known about abnormal pap smears and HPV
What Brittany Chaffee wishes she’d known about abnormal pap smears and HPV Oct 28, 2026 26:56 Brittany Chaffee was in her mid-twenties when she was told her pap smear was abnormal, and she needed to come back for a biopsy. She found a stairwell at work and cried her heart out, filled with anxiety. What followed was nearly a decade of abnormal pap smear results, painful procedures, and almost $8,000 in bills. She learned the hard way about HPV, and procedures like a colposcopy and a LEEP, a
How to talk about pain in the ER, with Dr Jeremy Faust
How to talk about pain in the ER, with Dr Jeremy Faust Oct 14, 2026 27:23 A sudden, blinding headache brought Golda to the emergency room in December of 2025, and that visit became the inspiration for this episode. Golda uses that ER visit as a case study to understand how we as patients can better communicate with our healthcare providers, and vice versa. The guest on this episode is Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in B
How to talk so your doctor listens, with endocrinologist Dr Gillian Goddard
How to talk so your doctor listens, with endocrinologist Dr Gillian Goddard Sep 29, 2026 27:16 Your doctor is supposed to listen to you regardless of what you say - but most women have a story about a doctor’s visit that left them feeling dismissed and invisible. This episode kicks off a new series of conversations exploring the doctor-patient relationship, and how we as patients can improve it, and get the care and attention we deserve. Endocrinologist Dr. Gillian Goddard, author of The Ho
First Person Health: stories about ovarian cancer
First Person Health: stories about ovarian cancer Sep 17, 2026 27:20 This episode features voices from First Person Health, a creative storytelling workshop which helps women express their experiences with health and illness, diagnosis and recovery. This is a special ovarian cancer edition, and features powerfully-told stories from ovarian cancer survivors Deborah Binder, Jen Johnson, Molly Goodman and Nikki Myers.All four women document how this cancer transf
Cancer survivorship and its shadow, with Dr Mercedes Castiel
Cancer survivorship and its shadow, with Dr Mercedes Castiel Sep 1, 2026 28:15 There are many positive developments in cancer treatments right now, and the overall survival rate for cancer across the board is ticking upwards. But there’s a shadow here. Survivorship is overlooked, and it comes with its own weight, creating a range of challenges: difficulties that are emotional or physical, sexual or financial. In this episode, Golda talks to Dr Mercedes Castiel about the shad
Why Black women are twice as likely to die of this cancer, with Dr Kemi Doll
Why Black women are twice as likely to die of this cancer, with Dr Kemi Doll Aug 18, 2026 30:37 Gynecologic oncologist Dr. Kemi Doll explains how clinical guidelines built without Black women in mind, and decades of dismissed symptoms means that Black women are twice as likely to die of endometrial cancer. Dr. Doll's newly released book, A Terrible Strength, The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb and Your Survival Guide to Healing, digs even deeper into the crisis she's spent her career trying
Stories from the 'First Person Health' workshop
Stories from the 'First Person Health' workshop Aug 4, 2026 19:33 'First Person Health' is a storytelling workshop, and this episode features two moving pieces from women who took the class: Patsy Day tells a devastating story about her stillborn child, and says that in the UK, "The underfunding of stillbirth research is a political act." Leah Wittenberg tells a visceral story about a stomach infection caused by H. pylori that caused complications and sepsis,
On the passing of my mom, Teresa Arthur
On the passing of my mom, Teresa Arthur Jul 16, 2026 15:41 Teresa Arthur, whose story with ovarian cancer was the reason Overlooked was created in the first place, passed away on July 2nd, 2026.  In this episode, Golda reflects on her mom’s passing, and re-introduces the very first episode of the podcast, going back to where this journey began.  The first season of Overlooked was all about ovarian cancer, and to listen to the next episode in that series,
From period pain to the pain scale: why we struggle with the language of pain, with Kate Downey
From period pain to the pain scale: why we struggle with the language of pain, with Kate Downey Jun 24, 2026 37:17 This episode is a special collaboration with Cramped, a podcast hosted by the dynamic Kate Helen Downey. Golda and Kate talk about the language of pain, why women talk about their pain differently than men, and how our pain is so often dismissed. Also - what’s the point of the pain scale, anyway?  You can listen to Cramped here: https://patreon.com/cramped For more resources on the topics mentione
The cost of endometriosis, with Sanju Pal
The cost of endometriosis, with Sanju Pal Jun 2, 2026 25:01 Sanju Pal was a high-performing management consultant when she was told she had a cyst on her ovary the size of a Coke can. But sitting in her gynecologist's office, facing urgent surgery, all she could think about was her job. That moment was the beginning of a seven year struggle through endometriosis, dismissal by her employer, and two employment tribunals - that ended in a landmark ruling esta
Understanding and treating PMDD, with Shalene Gupta
Understanding and treating PMDD, with Shalene Gupta May 12, 2026 29:35 Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, or PMDD is an overlooked and under-researched condition - a severe form of PMS. Shalene Gupta is the author of ‘The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD’, a raw account of her experience with this condition. Shalene talks about the havoc it created in her life and her relationships, and the difficult path to finding effective treatment. She also traces P

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