MEDICAL GASLIGHTING at the Individual-Personal and Institutional-Global Levels
Indeed we could reasonably conclude that gaslighting is built into the system of medicine, given the medical profession’s short-shrifting of visits and consistent endorsement of bogus drug treatments
MEDICAL GASLIGHTING at the Individual-Personal Level
A recent (Oct2023) CME presentation by Nicole Rochester MD titled “Medical Gaslighting"1 has finally given us the language for the common experience that nearly all of us have had—that of having our concerns minimized or completely ignored by medical doctors and other healthcare providers. Dr Rochester presents the definition of medical gaslighting as “a form of manipulation in which healthcare providers make a patient doubt their symptoms, experiences, or feelings.” The consequences include not simply poor quality healthcare in the moment of the gaslighting experience, but also reduced trust and comfort in healthcare utilization that leads to delayed care in the future.
Indeed, we could reasonably conclude that gaslighting is inherently built into the system of medicine, given the medical profession’s consistent endorsement of bogus drug treatments such as SSRIs, statins, and certain injections and the overall stance that “drugs and surgeries are the solutions to all health problems”, including obesity caused by toxic overeating, as I reviewed previously:
MEDICAL GASLIGHTING at the Institutional-Global Level
I have documented many occasions of medical gaslighting at the institutional level and more recently at the global level; examples include…all major medical journals….see PDF examples in original post.
