Dr Gillian Deakin grew up close enough to hear the lions roaring at night in Sydney's Taronga Zoo.
She was part of a large, Catholic family and learned social justice and critical thinking from a young age.
When Gillian became a doctor, she promised herself her career wouldn’t involve sitting behind a desk.
She worked on the Australian outback film Burke and Wills, in Antarctica and on the tiny coral atoll of Kiribati.
Today Gillian treats patients with functional disorders — aggravating symptoms that sometimes escape medical diagnosis and can deeply affect people’s lives.
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What The Hell Is Wrong With Me? How to recover from pain, fatigue, weakness and other undiagnosed symptoms is self-published.
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