Suraya* was 24 when she went to her GP with intractable back pain, fatigue, fever and facial swelling. The doctor prodded her ribcage, poked her face so hard that she left with a black eye – and made his diagnosis.
“He said: ‘Do you like your job?’ He explained that either I didn’t and this was psychosomatic, or I was work-shy.” She sighs, still emotional three decades on. “I loved my job.”
