Dr. Lindsay Shirreff works with women in some of their most vulnerable moments—childbirth, painful sex, and the insomnia, mood swings and hot flashes of menopause that can go on for more than a decade. As an obstetrician and gynecologist in Toronto, she’s made mature women’s health a focus of her work, committed to meeting the growing need for treatment of a group that is, as she calls it, “deeply underserved.” “Nearly 50 per cent of Canadians will go through menopause, yet access to informed, evidence-based care remains limited and women are no longer willing to wait months to years for care,” she says. “I have seen, over and over again, patients coming into my office having waited too long to have their symptoms treated and have struggled for years before being able to get appropriat

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