Author: Esca van Blarikom, Postdoctoral Researcher in Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King's College London

Christina Applegate has spoken about the distress of learning that she had been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, despite continuing to experience debilitating symptoms. Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock When actor Christina Applegate revealed that she had been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), she described the experience as “very unnerving” and “really confusing”. For five years, MS had […]