How diagnosis gets us wrong

A diagnosis is supposed to give us certainty, our first step on the road to recovery. But what if your diagnosis is inflected by a doctor’s bias, swayed by Big Pharma, or designed to protect the police?

and tells the stories of the patients who have found themselves stigmatised, shamed or even physically harmed because of a label.

In her years of practice as a neurologist, Jules saw the relief a diagnosis could bring, but she also came to see its limitations. At this fascinating event, Jules will speak of patients and their families who have had their lives turned upside down by a diagnosis, and ask how we might begin to heal.