Doctors' Notes: Endometriosis
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Chris and Xand continue their conversation about endometriosis with Dr Chi Eziefula, Associate Professor in Global Health and Infection at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
The doctors want to know what the deeper biology of endometriosis is, how general attitudes around women’s health impact the time it takes to be diagnosed with conditions, and if we are seeing any change in the research and social landscape surrounding endometriosis. They also explore how medical training impacts doctors' ability to identify and diagnose women’s health conditions like endometriosis, which currently have an average time to diagnosis of seven and a half years.
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Presenters: Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken Guest: Dr Chi Eziefula Producer: Maia Miller-Lewis Executive Producer: Jo Rowntree Editor: Faye Lyons-White Assistant Producer: Faye Lyons-White Researcher: Mili Ostojic Tech Lead: Reuben Huxtable Visual Producer: Leon Gower Digital Lead: Richard Berry Composer: Phoebe McFarlane Sound Design: Melvin Rickarby
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| 0:39.7 | Hello, welcome to Doctor's Notes. I'm Dr. Chris Van Telegan. As ever, I'm here with my identical twin brother. |
| 0:45.6 | That's me, Doctors Aunt. We've just finished recording an interview with Dr. Chi Eziaphyla. |
| 0:50.5 | We've been talking about endometriosis. |
| 0:54.0 | It's an amazing subject if you want to understand human biology. It's about stem cells. It's |
| 0:59.7 | about hormones. It's about reproductive health. And it's also about how the medical and the |
| 1:04.7 | scientific system works. Yes. Or more specifically how it doesn't work, how there are areas |
| 1:10.4 | that we neglect. |
| 1:12.2 | And that disadvantage is everyone who is involved in science and medicine, whether as a clinician or as a patient. |
| 1:19.2 | There's so much more to explore about endometriosis. |
| 1:21.8 | Chi stayed on a little longer. |
| 1:23.9 | So now we're going to do doctor's notes. |
| 1:26.3 | We're going to talk more about the biology and We're going to talk more about the biology, |
| 1:28.2 | and we're going to talk more about the politics of endometriosis and reproductive health. |
| 1:33.0 | What are we waiting for, Chris? |
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