Dr Louise Newson, Britain’s most controversial hormone doctor, is smiling today, relaxed and almost unrecognisable from the pale, grim-faced woman she appeared 18 months ago.
At that point a BBC Panorama investigation – backed by ‘medical consensus’ in the form of the British Menopause Society – questioned the professionalism of her privately run HRT clinics, Newson Health, and in particular their allegedly cavalier approach to prescribing often higher-than-recommended dosages.
It caused a wave of panic among her patients and Dr Newson, 55, was forced to lay off 27 of the 70 doctors she employed. For her, it was professionally devastating: a university
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