According to Endometriosis Australia, one in seven women, girls and those assigned female at birth will experience endometriosis.

I, along with many other doctors, am one of those women.

I came to medicine after a career in industrial relations when I believed I couldn’t have children. I decided I needed to do something all-consuming. It turns out endometriosis was probably the cause.

After a laparoscopy and excision of endometriosis in second-year medical school, I had my son in final-year medical school, the day after sitting my surgical exam.