Dr. Louise Newson

And I'm saying he, but it could be she as well.

So we have this sort of patriarchal, hierarchical way that medicine is.

And so because I'm quite unconventional, even my career, I didn't go straight into general practice.

As you know, I did a lot of hospital medicine and I've worked as a medical writer for many years and written books on evidence-based medicine, which a lot of people don't realize.

And so I do think that

People may be a bit unnerved about me.

One of my great friends said to me, she messaged me, we'd sort of lost touch from university, and she messaged me a year or so ago and said, Louise, you know, they're dealing with the wrong person.

And I said, you've always been quite feisty and very clever since medical school.

They don't think they realise what they were up for.

And she's now going to come and work with us, actually, because she works in a casualty department.

in Edinburgh and realising all the women, all the injustice.

But most of us who, I'm not saying these people aren't good doctors, but most of us who are really good inquisitive doctors, I don't mind holding my hand up, Liz, and saying what I learnt was wrong or what I did in the past was wrong because I didn't have that knowledge.

Yeah, you move on.

I don't think that's a bad thing.

You know, you, with your career...

You've learned different things.

I've done the same.

Yeah.

And I think that's really important to be progressive.

I think the problem is in any job, whether it's medicine or whatever, if you're stuck and you don't think, you know, we don't always get it right.