Let’s Talk with Dr Mikayla Couch

Today’s episode is with Dr Mikayla Couch. Dr Mikayla Couch is an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Registrar and proud Bundjalung woman who has a keen interest in Indigenous Women’s Health. She is passionate about making a difference in the lives of women through providing and advocating for excellent medical care. Through her Instagram account @dr.aboriginal.woman, she continually uses her presence online to provide commentary and create change in the health space. Dr Mikayla is empathetic and strives to provide person centred care through lived experience, suffering from PCOS herself.

We chat on: 

• How she keeps herself accountable with goals

• Mikayla’s experience with periods growing up and lack of understanding about periods

• Being diagnosed with PCOS at 27 and coming to terms with that diagnosis

• What drove Mikayla to become a doctor

• Challenges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people face in healthcare

• The impact that the pandemic has had on fertility, fertility treatments and finding a partner

• The optimal age for egg freezing

Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Let’s Talk, Period with Dr Mikayla Couch, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Registrar. If you want more from Dr Mikayla, you can follow her on instagram at @dr.aboriginal.woman. If you want to keep updated with all things Let's Talk, Period. you can follow us on Instagram at @letstalkperiodau.

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