Dr. Louise Newson

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah.

Especially if you're limited, you know, I used to only have 10 minute consultations.

So you would focus very much on the problem that the patient came with you.

When the patients are more empowered, you can start in a very different level.

And I'm hoping, you know, that's with all your work, that it's just so brilliant that women are then going back and thinking, right, okay, I've worked out that it's not me going mad.

So what am I going to do about it?

Because the suffering is immense.

Like it's just awful for women.

I think male doctors, this is a generalization, are more accepting than a lot of female doctors.

There's a lot of female doctors that are my age, you know, I mean, I'm 55, but at my age and older, and they've never had a problem.

They've never had a symptom.

So they just think it's all just ridiculous.

And quite a few doctors now have said to our patients, oh, menopause is just a fad.

Perimenopause is just a media term or it's just a new fashion buzzword.

And it's almost like because they didn't have a problem.

They don't think it's an issue.

And I think that's a very dangerous place to be as a doctor.

You know, I've never had psychosis, but does that mean I can't treat people who've had a psychotic episode or somebody who's... Sort of like empathy 101.

Yeah.