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New po this is a podcast for people interested in or suffering from optic neuritis and associated illnesses - but from a patient's prospect. When I started my journey with optic neuritis, there were very few resources on the Internet that could describe to me what I could expect both from the disease and the treatment and how it would feel. So this podcast is designed to fill that app.

I'm helped in each episode by my friend and collaborator Dr. Joanna Gould, who has a PhD neurology and helps explain some of the more difficult scientific topics.

They certainly isn't medical advice, but it's a medical experience that hopefully you can benefit from.

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A brief introduction to the podcast and the two presenters: Brendan Bouffler (the patient) and Dr Joanna Gould (our captive scientist).

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