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Partnering with Your Clinician: Building Trust and Readiness

  • October 7, 2025
  • Doctor Lawrence

When living with Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI), building a strong partnership with your clinician can feel challenging — especially when systems are fragmented and time is short. Yet this relationship is one of the most powerful tools you have on your readiness journey.

Clinicians everywhere are under pressure. They face administrative overload, shifting guidelines, and limited training in POI. Many deeply care, but feel constrained by the system. Women with POI can make a difference — not by demanding perfection, but by inviting partnership.

Steps Toward Stronger Collaboration

  1. Prepare Before Appointments: Bring your POI Readiness Self-Assessment™ results and a clear list of questions.
  2. Share Your Story Clearly: Briefly explain your goals and main symptoms, then ask what the next steps should be.
  3. Bring Evidence and Support: Offer concise research summaries or referral letters — not to challenge your clinician, but to empower collaboration.
  4. Acknowledge Their Effort: Gratitude builds trust. A simple “thank you for helping me understand this” can strengthen teamwork.

When clinicians and patients meet with openness and respect, readiness turns into progress.

A Pause for Reflection

Sometimes, it helps to take a breath and remember that change takes time — both for systems and for hearts.

Enjoy a quiet moment with this beautiful performance of “Let It Be” by Music Travel Love & Friends, filmed among the Al Wathba Fossil Dunes.

Its message — to let it be — speaks to patience, faith, and compassion. Healing begins not when we fight the system, but when we gently transform it through understanding.

Join the Conversation

In our #POIClinicians threads on the POI Readiness Facebook Group, we explore what partnership really looks like — from better language in appointments to shared advocacy for more integrated care.

Every woman’s readiness story helps shape a better future for all.

Take care and be well,

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Dr. Lawrence M. Nelson, MD, MBA
Director, My 28 Days® Initiative
President, Mary Elizabeth Conover Foundation, Inc.

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