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A young woman wearing white stares into the distance in front of a wall of ivy.

"I am in my gap year but I can't work full time … I work three days a week partly because of the travel [to Adelaide] and partly because of the pain I am in."
a woman with brown hair stands in a blue hospital gown with her stomach exposed showing her surgery scars

"It's been so difficult and so painful, both emotionally and physically for these women, and a lot of the time the first half an hour is me just listening and acknowledging that it's been a bit of a shitshow."
A young doctor with glasses and patterned scrubs sits at her desk smiling at the camera holding a pelvic floor diagram

"Endometriosis doesn't discriminate based on your geographical location; just because you live in the regions, it doesn't mean you don't need these services."

Woman lays on medical bed, two other women stand next to her, one holding a model of a pelvis.

"I see women as young as 19 coming in but they might not get a diagnosis until they're 26,"
she said.

A young woman wearing right stares ahead with a sombre look.

"Awareness and education around endometriosis has skyrocketed in recent years, but it's still got a long way to go."

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