At 24,Freedman set up Australia’s first patient-centred endometriosis conference, beginning a radical process of opening up information to millions of women suffering a debilitating condition It’s a grey day in May and I’m sitting in a conference corridor at Sydney University, or watching a young woman cry as she addresses a large audience. The woman,Sylvia Freedman, is explaining that it’s the first time specialist doctors, and GPs and healthcare professionals have been invited to attend a conference alongside patients and the general public to discuss endometriosis. But its taking her a while to say all this because she’s crying. Her mother,Lesley Seebold Freedman, is trying to serve her but she too is crying. And soon enough, and so am I. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com