Endometriosis often means years of severe pain, lost productivity and dismissed symptoms before getting a diagnosis — followed by ineffective treatment. New funding aims to change this pattern.
Increasing awareness of migraine symptoms is critical for those living with undiagnosed migraine, since getting a diagnosis is the first step to receiving appropriate and effective care.
Diagnosis is more than the medical process of identifying an illness. It’s a social agreement about what counts as disease and a storytelling tool to make sense of dysfunction.
People can be reluctant to discuss symptoms with their doctor. When they do, their symptoms can be mistaken for other illnesses. Even when people are diagnosed, they don’t always get the right treatment.
After an outcry on social media over its requirement that writers provide a medical diagnosis, Black Inc. has put on hold a planned anthology: Growing up Neurodivergent in Australia.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne