In January’s column, I wrote about medical gaslighting. That article covered what medical gaslighting is and who is likely to be most impacted by medical gaslighting. This month in Part 2 of this two-part services, I want to focus on practitioners and how to avoid medical gaslighting. How the Medical System Sets Up Practitioners to Fail I think that having to center a practice around insurance codes to justify labs, imaging and treatments benefits neither patient nor practitioner and it … [Read more...] about How to Avoid Medical Gaslighting, Part Two
Medical Gaslighting
Recognizing Medical Gaslighting
If you’re a patient, have you ever had the experience of your practitioner blowing off or minimizing your symptoms? Or, worse yet, has your practitioner made you feel like you’re crazy and couldn’t be possibly experiencing your own symptoms? As a practitioner who has treated chronic illness and pain for well over a decade, this does happen. It’s called medical gaslighting and I want to shine a light on it so that we can all recognize it. This is Part 1 of a two-part series. What is Medical … [Read more...] about Recognizing Medical Gaslighting
