The wilderness of medically invisible disability

Disbelief and disregard in relation to medicine, chronic illness and disability
This video, with transcript below, was part of a webinar held by Liverpool University on 24th May 2022.
Transcript
Hi, I’m Catherine Hale. I’m the Founder and Director of Chronic Illness Inclusion. My colleague Alison and myself are very excited to be embarking on a two-year research project, a collaboration with Bethan Evans at Liverpool University and other colleagues. My colleague Alison is going to talk you through the research on healthcare experiences of women with chronic illness, chronic pain and other energy limiting conditions.
This research was the catalyst for the project that we’re going to be embarking on. But first I want to give you some background on why this research was so important to our community. So the title of our talk, “The wilderness of medically unexplained, [sorry] medically invisible disability” is taken from an article in the British Medical Journal by Lisa Steen in 2016 and her article was called “The wilderness of the medically unexplained”.