Mitzi Joi Williams, MD, is joined by Jakai McEwen, DO, and Charnetta Colton-Poole, MD, to discuss the challenges of communication between patients and their health care teams, including navigating medical language, promoting shared decision-making, and advocating for clear, patient-centered care.
Brain Chat with the Nerdy Neurologist is a podcast hosted by Mitzi Joi Williams, MD that brings together clinicians, experts, and people with lived experience to make complex neurologic and health care topics clear, practical, and human. Through patient-centered conversations, the series explores brain health, neurologic conditions, and the challenges patients and families face when navigating the health care system.
In this episode, Williams is joined by Barbara Joy Jones, MD, a family medicine physician and medical director of Evora Family Medicine, to discuss the intersection of perimenopause, menopause, and multiple sclerosis. The conversation explores how hormonal changes during perimenopause and menopause can contribute to symptoms such as brain fog, memory difficulties, sleep disturbances, mood changes, hot flashes, joint pain, and palpitations, while also highlighting the challenges of distinguishing these symptoms from neurologic or other medical conditions. Williams and Jones discuss the importance of taking a holistic approach to evaluation, recognizing when symptoms may warrant additional specialty evaluation, and coordinating care across primary care, neurology, and other specialties.
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