181 - Supporting women’s hormone journey with Dr Samantha Newman

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dr Samantha Newman is a British doctor working in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. After training in obstetrics and gynaecology, a moving encounter with a patient led her to re-train as a GP and develop an interest in supporting women’s health and wellbeing. Samantha’s clinic, FemaleGP, was established in 2016 to improve access to focused healthcare for women including gynaecological and sexual health and treatments for perimenopause and menopause. In this episode, the experts discuss shared decision making with their patients, symptom improvements with HRT, and supporting women to ‘listen’ to their hormones. Samantha also shares some of her experiences working with women from the Māori community and culture. Dr Samantha’s three tips: See your hormones as a journey and not as separate, distinct phases of life. Find support along the way – wherever in the journey you find yourself. For healthcare providers: see your patients as a whole person and as part of their families and find out their true thoughts and desires. Be honest with your patients and encourage them to be honest with you. If they haven’t taken your advice, revisit things and find out what didn’t align with their values rather than viewing it as a negative. For more information about Samantha’s work, visit www.femalegp.co.nz Follow Samantha on social media at https://www.facebook.com/FemaleGP and https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-newman-34223b230

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause. So today with me on the podcast, I've got someone called Samantha Newman, who I've
0:50.6	met like a lot of people I meet online, but I actually met in real life a couple of days ago,
0:55.8	which was very exciting. And one of the things that's very exciting about Samantha is that she's
1:00.6	very keen in menopause care, but she works and lives in New Zealand, which some of you might know,
1:06.1	I lived in New Zealand just for a year, a long time ago, actually, in 1995. So just to hear her talk about New Zealand just for a year, a long time ago actually in 1995. So just to hear her talk about
1:13.8	New Zealand makes me feel very nostalgic. So welcome Samantha to the podcast today. Oh,
1:18.9	thank you very much. It's such an honour to be able to talk to you today. Oh, so tell me a bit about
1:25.1	you then, because you haven't always been in New Zealand, have you?
1:28.7	No. So I trained at Bristol University, having lived my whole life in London. And if I didn't
1:35.6	leave London, I thought I never would. And then after university, went back to London, met my husband
1:41.7	and started Obz and Guiney specialist training. And like many doctors
1:47.2	decided that actually it's about the journey and the experience. And so we went to New Zealand.
1:55.7	And I started work as an Obs and Guineistrar, which was great actually in a small rural place
2:01.7	called Hawks Bay, which has a population of about 180,000. I did look that up for the purposes
2:08.8	of being able to explain the size. And it was great, really good experience working as an
2:14.7	obs and Guiney registrar. But I have got a patient that knows she was pretty
2:19.0	kind of instrumental in my changing my career direction because it was, it's a really sad story,
2:25.2	but with a really positive ending. So on my first week in delivery suite, unfortunately, she had a
2:32.7	very sad outcome with respect to pregnancy. And I was
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