Across the arc of a woman's life — from fertility through pregnancy and into the long passage of menopause — medical needs accumulate quietly, often unspoken. At a recent conclave of physicians, experts made plain what silence has long obscured: that symptoms dismissed as ordinary are frequently treatable, and that the normalization of suffering is not biology but culture. The gathering was less a medical briefing than a call for permission — permission for women to name what they feel, and for healthcare systems to be worthy of that trust.