Erasing the Shame from Herpes and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections
Our Better Half podcast: Drs. Jane Fleishman, Jayleen Galarza, Sabitha Pillai-Friedman, and Rosara Torrisi, sex educators and sex therapists, break down the beauty of human sexuality in the latter half of life—we call it our better half
Our Better Half,12/31/2023
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Gretchen Frey back to the podcast. We first interviewed Gretchen right after she retired from her specialty in Obstetrics and Gynecology. She practiced Gynecology exclusively (no OB) from 2010 until 2021.
She is now completely retired from clinical practice focusing primarily on sexuality education. Sabitha and Jane taught a pre-conference seminar with Gretchen a few years ago with another colleague and had a great time working together! During her years of working as a physician, Dr. Frey developed special expertise in treating older adults and saw many patients with formerly undiagnosed sexually transmitted infections or STIs.
A number of our listeners have asked us to focus more on this area so we asked Gretchen to come back and talk with us about STIs. She talks with Sabitha and Jane about STIs and focuses specifically on Herpes Simplex Virus. She provides us with a common sense approach to testing, treatment, and the difficult issue of shame.