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A doctor said it to us directly: "patients make terrible historians." She wasn't being unkind. She was being honest about a structural problem that affects both sides of the consultation. And she wasn't even dealing with menopause. In appointments, women try to reconstruct months of symptoms — brain fog, broken sleep, mood that doesn't make sense — in ten minutes, under pressure, from memory. No wonder they don't get the results they hoped for. For clinicians, NICE NG23 now requires individualised care. That means individual data. A longitudinal symptom record, a full HRT history, adherence data, before-and-after patterns around each dose change — not a verbal account assembled under pressure from a memory that brain fog has already compromised. This week on Substack, we look at what actually changes when a woman arrives with structured evidence — at every stage: still trying to get a diagnosis, newly on HRT, or years into managing treatment. Better appointments need better information. That's a problem worth solving from both ends. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eeisw55E #menopause #perimenopause #WomensHealth #femtech