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*2018, [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/04/memoirs-of-disease-and-disbelief Memoirs of Disease and Disbelief] ''Porochista Khakpour’s deliberately unheroic “Sick” raises questions about what we expect of female patients with chronic illness'' - The New Yorker | *2018, [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/04/memoirs-of-disease-and-disbelief Memoirs of Disease and Disbelief] ''Porochista Khakpour’s deliberately unheroic “Sick” raises questions about what we expect of female patients with chronic illness'' - The New Yorker | ||
==Articles and blogs == | |||
* [https://www.ajourneythroughthefog.co.uk/2019/11/have-you-been-a-victim-of-medical-gaslighting/ Have You Been A Victim Of Medical Gaslighting?] - Jo Moss | |||
* [https://thesciencebit.net/2019/03/21/if-you-spend-20-years-gaslighting-your-patients-perhaps-you-should-think-twice-before-accusing-them-of-trolling-you/ If you spend 20 years gaslighting your patients, perhaps you should think twice before accusing *them* of trolling *you*] - psychologist Brian Hughes | |||
*[https://www.virology.ws/2020/10/20/trial-by-error-long-covid-me-cfs-and-medically-unexplained-symptoms/ Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on Long-Covid, ME/CFS and MUS] - David Tuller | |||
==Learn more == | ==Learn more == | ||
*[https://www.berkeleywellness.com/healthy-community/health-care-policy/article/when-medical-symptoms-are-dismissed-all-your-head '''EXPERT Q&A''' When Medical Symptoms Are Dismissed as 'All in Your Head'] - David Tuller | |||
* [https://rsds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/NarrativeReviewof_ImpactofDisbeliefinChronicPain.pdf A Narrative Review of the Impact of Disbelief in Chronic Pain (2013)] | * [https://rsds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/NarrativeReviewof_ImpactofDisbeliefinChronicPain.pdf A Narrative Review of the Impact of Disbelief in Chronic Pain (2013)] | ||
Revision as of 15:58, October 24, 2020
Medical gaslighting is term used to describe doctors or medical practitioners who blame a patient's illness or symptoms on psychological factors, or deny a patient's illness entirely.[1][2]
Gaslighting by medics is more commonly experienced by certain patient groups, particularly women, and in illnesses which do not yet have a clear diagnostic tests, for example ME/CFS, chronic pain, and endometriosis.
ME/CFS[edit | edit source]
Notable studies and publications[edit | edit source]
News and articles[edit | edit source]
- 2018, Memoirs of Disease and Disbelief Porochista Khakpour’s deliberately unheroic “Sick” raises questions about what we expect of female patients with chronic illness - The New Yorker
Articles and blogs[edit | edit source]
- Have You Been A Victim Of Medical Gaslighting? - Jo Moss
- If you spend 20 years gaslighting your patients, perhaps you should think twice before accusing *them* of trolling *you* - psychologist Brian Hughes
- Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on Long-Covid, ME/CFS and MUS - David Tuller
Learn more[edit | edit source]
- EXPERT Q&A When Medical Symptoms Are Dismissed as 'All in Your Head' - David Tuller
- A Narrative Review of the Impact of Disbelief in Chronic Pain (2013)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Ethical issues
- The Mental Health Movement: Persecution of Patients?
- Medical Abuse In ME Sufferers (MAIMES)
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Mitchell, Natasha (October 22, 2020). "Doctors warn of lasting effects of COVID-19 after struggling to recover from virus". www.abc.net.au. Retrieved October 24, 2020. Cite has empty unknown parameter:
|dead-url=(help) - ↑ Nelson, Hilde Lindemann (2001). "Narrative Repair: Reclaiming Moral Agency". Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair. Cornell University Press. pp. 29–30. ISBN 978-0-8014-8740-8.
