256 - Spreading the word about menopause care in the US, and beyond

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week Dr Louise is joined by Aoife O’Sullivan, a family medicine doctor who trained in Dublin before completing a second family medicine residency at the University of Maryland. After taking some time out to complete extra training in perimenopausal and menopausal care, including Newson Health’s Confidence in the Menopause course, Dr Aoife is passionate about providing more comprehensive and holistic care to women during midlife. Dr Aoife share the ways clinicians, and all people, can educate themselves in order to improve the health of women in the US, and across the world: Take every opportunity to learn and educate. So join any local healthcare Facebook groups and pass on links to the Confidence in the Menopause website, the balance app, etc. Even if you reach one or two people like that, it will make a difference and they might reach another one or two people. Share small bites of information because it can be a little overwhelming. So when you're trying to reach somebody, give them small amounts of information at a time. Harness the power of friends. If everyone informs their friends and they all go to their doctors, obstetricians, gynaecologists and urologists, and ask questions, it will fuel discussion and increase knowledge. You can follow Dr Aoife on Instagram @portlandmenopausedoc Find out more about the Confidence in the Menopause course and click here for more about Newson Health.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.
0:21.6	I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.
0:25.6	Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause
0:31.6	and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,
0:38.2	and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.
0:43.7	This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,
0:46.9	which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.
1:02.7	So today on the podcast, I've got another American guest, although she's not American, she lives in America.
1:08.5	She's Irish and another healthcare professional, another
1:11.4	doctor who reached out to me a while ago and just shared some really inspirational words
1:16.9	and offered to come in the podcast so we can have a talk about education, about how much we
1:23.5	learnt when we were younger about the menopause and how much we wish we'd learnt and what we're
1:27.9	doing about it really. So, IFA's kindly agreed to come onto the podcast today. So thanks,
1:33.7	Eva, for joining me. Thanks so much for having me. So everyone can hear just in those words that
1:38.6	you don't have an American accent, do you? When I go home to Ireland, people tell me I have an American accent, yeah.
1:45.5	Oh, really? Yeah. So you are from Ireland, but where did you do your medical training then,
1:50.6	I did it in Dublin, in the Royal College of Surgeons. And then that was back when you could do
1:56.9	your own GP scheme after med school. And so I did three years of my own GP scheme. And then we
2:04.5	moved over here to America, Baltimore, Maryland, first of all. And back then they didn't accept any
2:12.1	schemes done outside America. So my husband and I both had to go back and do residency all over again.
2:18.6	Gosh. Yeah. So I did a second GP scheme there and then have been working since then.
2:25.4	And whereabouts are you based now? About eight years ago, we moved over to the West Coast to
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