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.

On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based

information and advice about both the perimenopause and the

menopause. So today on the podcast I'm going to introduce to you someone that I've recently

met, but I hope it's the beginning of a fruitful relationship. It's someone called Osama

Naji, who is a consultant gynaecologist at Guys in St Thomas's. And there's another connection

there actually, because the first job that I had as a student when I was still at school was a summer

holiday job at St Thomas's Hospital, as a clinic clerk, actually. And that was the first time that I'd had a bit of

patient experience. I watched my first post-mortem there. I managed to get my way into the mortuary

and really just created this thirst for medicine and I used to sneak out at lunch and go and look

at the South Bank and think how wonderful, what a great hospital it is and it's really built

up and obviously now with guys. So welcome to the podcast today. Thank you so much, Louise,

for having me. I am delighted to be with you on this podcast. So you reached out to me actually

from a mutual patient and some of you might know we have somebody that does scans in our clinic actually,

who's very experienced.

And when women have bleeding, when they're on HRT, we usually recommend them to have an

examination and then have a scan and it can either be done in the clinic or through their GP

or through another gynecologist.

And you phoned me up.

And I'm always on the defensive so I was

worried that something had wrong and it was delightful that you were very complimentary about

Adrian, my scanner who's phenomenal, he's very good and then we started to have the conversation more

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