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 I'm delighted to introduce to you again to the studio, Dr. Saj Rajpah,

who hopefully some of you have heard before, and I don't think this is going to be the last podcast I do with him,

because there's so much to talk about when it comes to skin.

And Saj is my go-to dermatologist, not just for me, but for my patients as well, because he's so knowledgeable and so calm.

And actually, I just love the way he explains things to people as well so welcome

back today serge thanks for joining me thanks louise it's always a pleasure to come on so yeah it's

interesting isn't it so I wanted to do dermatology for a little while I wanted to do oncology

initially the study of cancer and I'm quite geeky. I like pathology. I like

disease. Well, I don't like disease. That's silly. I like learning about diseases, how they work,

what happens, what goes wrong with the body, you know, right down to a molecular basis. And when I did an

oncology job, I just decided I didn't want to do it

because it was all about trials. It was all about putting people into chemotherapy trials.

And somehow the sort of sensitivity of the patient was lost. They were on a bit of a conveyor belt.

And I really liked me very personal with my patients and working out the best consultation for them at the best time for them and sharing all the decisions.

So I decided it wasn't for me, but I was already on a medical rotation.

So I did lots of other jobs.

And then I was in Manchester.

And Manchester's got really good dermatology unit.

And I thought, when I've done my BSC,

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