00:00What are your patients always uncomfortable to talk about with you?
00:03So the two topics that people are most uncomfortable about, for obvious reasons, are urinary incontinence.
00:10Everybody's embarrassed about that, about leaking urine, coughing and leaking urine,
00:16having to change their clothes, whatever it is, but urinary incontinence is extraordinarily
00:21common in women, in particular, after they've had children and get older and they're embarrassed
00:27to talk about, and they shouldn't be.
00:30There are lots of things we can do about urinary incontinence.
00:33What are the other awkward issues?
00:35Bowel habits.
00:37Everybody's embarrassed to talk about their bowel habits, and for us, we've heard it all.
00:42We like to hear about changes in your bowel habits.
00:45They're important.
00:46They can be a signal that something's wrong in your colon, so anything that you think is
00:52even small change in your bowel habits, bleeding, normal to constipation, diarrhea, you're going
01:00less frequently, you're having bloating, tell your doctor, we need to know.
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