How can medical diagnosis get us wrong? – with Jules Montague

Join former consultant neurologist Jules Montague as she explores the troubled state of diagnosis and tells us the stories of the patients who have found themselves stigmatised, shamed or even physically harmed because of a label. Watch the Q&A for this video here: https://youtu.be/uOCiaY9kY8Q

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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?

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.

This talk was recorded at the Royal Institution on 16 June 2022

Jules Montague is a former consultant neurologist, and the author of Lost and Found, published in 2018. She writes about health and science for the BBC, Lancet, Guardian and Observer. She has spoken at TEDx London and appeared on BBC Radio 4 and Sky News.

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