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.

I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.

Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause

and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,

and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.

This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,

which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.

So today on my podcast, I'm really delighted to introduce you someone I've known for many years,

who has been a real inspiration, not just to me, but especially to my

husband. He still manages to be a great mentor, friend and colleague, often when Paul goes abroad to

Africa, to do charity operating. So I've got with me, Steve Payne, who's a urologist who was working

at Manchester Royal Infirmary when I did my medical training. So I've

known you Steve for many years. So welcome to the podcast. It's great having you here. So I speak a lot

about Paul and I've even had him on my podcast actually. But urologist, sometimes people don't know what it means.

So do you mind just talking about what a urologist is

and why you decided to be a urologist?

Let's start with that first.

I mean, I decided to be a urologist because I like the people who were in urology,

and I think that that's a really common reason

for people wanting to go into the specialty. But a urology and I think that that's a really common reason for people wanting

to go into the specialty but a urologist is somebody who deals with the urinary tract and that is

from the top of the kidneys down to the very tip of your water pipe and all of the points in

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