Dr. Louise Newson

And it's been wonderful to see how, for many of us, that consultation model has really changed and put the patient in the centre.

But the patient now has a unique advantage for having almost as much information available to them that we have.

You know, you can go into PubMed, you can read all the evidence, you can look at the guidelines.

Yeah, whereas years ago you couldn't have that.

And I think that's the same with wearables as well.

As you know, there are quite a few articles often in the medical press saying this is terrible that people are monitoring their pulse or their blood pressure or their stress or their sleep.

But I actually think more data is really important.

It's what you do with it and how you interpret it.

Yeah, I think it's really important.

And again, it's about ownership and choice.

And I think it's really important because so often we're medicalising people to make us feel better as doctors.

And I reflect back to some of the patients that I treated in the past.

And I know, I feel bad saying it, but I know that I gave people antidepressants who probably didn't really benefit or need them.

I probably gave antibiotics.

I gave other things because I just needed to give them something often when they come back and back.

And I often wasn't thinking so much in the bigger picture.

And you probably know what I'm going to say.

I obviously didn't think about hormones either.

Yeah.

But for men and for women here.