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Hi. I'm B. Some of you know me, some of you don't. Maybe a long time, maybe a moment. 
Depending on the perspective, what I show may come as a surprise or as a statement of the Obvious. 
I was going to start off by writing 'I'm a doctor' - but that would make this aspect my whole identity and if there's anything I've had to unlearn the past years, it's that.
So no. 
I'm a woman. I'm a feminist. The headstrong, raging killjoy type, the reading type, the shouty-on-paper type. And yes, this comes from my medical background - as a cardiologist, initially, I wasn't too aware of healthcare disparities. Women get heart attacks, men get heart attacks, fair enough. 
However, things started to change after my cardio-oncology degree. All of a sudden I saw young breast cancer patients at risk of heart disease, or developing cardiac toxicity from their cancer treatment, patients younger than me. Swallow that.
Until at a certain point in time, Ann @ann.dewalque and Lien @lwillaert from Rebelle (@rebellevzw ) contacted me to participate in their podcast 'Openhartig' ('open-hearted'), for something about heart disease in women. I honestly told them that that wasn't really my specialty, that I mainly focused on heart disease in cancer patients. They got back to me. If I could talk about exactly that topic, then. And that got everything moving. 
I tripped and fell down the rabbit hole of sex and gender disparities in cardiology, in medicine, in healthcare, in history and in current times. Women in the face of patriarchy and capitalism. Underrepresentation. Underdiagnosis. Undertreatment. Anonimity. Invisibility. And I haven't come out. I dove deep during a time in my life where I was struggling with myself as well (different story entirely, or not that different perhaps), and all those things made me come to terms with who I am. 
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