Women's longevity, prevention, and primary care
Dr. Mira Massoud, MD
She was in her fifties.
She was transferred from the intensive care unit to the progressive care unit where I was removing a line from her neck. She said, "I do not understand how I reached this point. I knew what I should have done." She looked at me. "I just kept putting everyone and everything else first." I listened.
She was in her forties.
She was a friend I met during Improv classes. She had to do some unpleasant but necessary tests to screen for the scary diseases. There, I was not the doctor, I was a student, and I was a friend. "I promise to have had it done by the next time I see you," she told me. The following week came, she hadn't done it yet. I gently reminded her of her promise. And the next time, she owned it. "I did it as promised," she smiled, "and it came back normal."
She was in her sixties.
Her daughter was hospitalized and was transferred from the psychiatry department to the medicine department where I worked. "This is more than just a psychiatric problem, I know my child," she said. She was there every morning and every night for the 2 weeks I was on service. I believed her, and I kept advocating alongside her for her daughter. And she was right.
She was in her thirties, she had moved countries and states.
She was looking around her, trying to decode those scenes in her own words. I asked her, "What bothers you the most?" "Loneliness," she said, "and the way they sell women an incomplete picture of being whole and healthy," she added. "So what are you going to do about it?" I asked. "I will set the table," she said. And she did.
I am Dr. Mira Massoud, a board certified physician specializing in women's longevity, preventive, and primary care, with training that spans internal, integrative, and obesity medicine.
Before opening this practice, I worked as a hospitalist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, including The James Cancer Hospital, where I often met patients only after illness had already become serious.
I also hold an MBA from OSU's Fisher College of Business, which I draw on to think about systems, decisions, and how to build a better model of care.
I have always been drawn to how we communicate with one another. I write, and for years I acted in theatre. To me they are the same craft: making an idea land so a person can feel it, not only hear it.
The accent, by the way, is from Cairo, where I was born and raised. Growing up across cultures, I learned to see people in context, which matters a great deal in medicine.
I'm a food lover, and I enjoy it best with a full table.
I've come to believe that this table is part of the medicine, not separate from it.
The table now extends online, where I share evidence-based health education, and lighter content to make health feel human. Closer to home, I walk, and I tend a raised-bed garden with a bit more seriousness than it strictly requires.
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