‘My career was over in a second’: Dr Stacy Patterson on her Parkinson’s diagnosis at 29
Dr Stacy Patterson says she did not fit the typical demographic she was taught in medical school
Dr Stacy Patterson first noticed a tremor in her left hand in 2018.
At the time, she was training as an obstetrics and gynaecology registrar in Brisbane.
“It was intermittent, but I remember my consultant noticing it one day, and we both just put it down to too much caffeine and not enough food, as usual.”
“But then I began to find I could not tie surgical knots with my left hand, and I was losing dexterity.
