Medical gaslighting
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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]
- 2008, Obstructions for quality care experienced by patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)—A case study[3] (Abstract)
- 2015, THIRTY YEARS OF DISDAIN: How HHS and A Group of Psychiatrists Buried Myalgic Encephalomyelitis[4]
- 2016, "Cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome: A narrative review on efficacy and informed consent"[5]
- 2016, "Chronic fatigue syndrome: is the biopsychosocial model responsible for patient dissatisfaction and harm?"[6]
- 2017, Epistemic injustice in healthcare encounters: evidence from chronic fatigue syndrome[7] (Full text)
- 2019, Legitimizing myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: indications of change over a decade[8] - (Abstract)
- 2019, Dismissing chronic illness: A qualitative analysis of negative health care experiences[9] - (Abstract)
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.
- ↑ Gilje, Ann Marit; Söderlund, Atle; Malterud, Kirsti (October 2008). "Obstructions for quality care experienced by patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)—A case study". Patient Education and Counseling. 73 (1): 36–41. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2008.04.001.
- ↑ Dimmock, Mary; Lazell-Fairman, Matthew (December 2015). "THIRTY YEARS OF DISDAIN: How HHS and a group of psychiatrists Buried Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" (PDF). Retrieved November 5, 2018. Cite has empty unknown parameter:
|dead-url=(help) - ↑ Blease, Charlotte; Geraghty, Keith (September 15, 2016). "Cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome: A narrative review on efficacy and informed consent" (Journal of Health Psychology). doi:10.1177/1359105316667798. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ↑ Geraghty, Keith; Esmail, Aneez (August 1, 2016). "Chronic fatigue syndrome: is the biopsychosocial model responsible for patient dissatisfaction and harm?". British Journal of General Practice. 66 (649): 437-438. doi:10.3399/bjgp16X686473.
- ↑ Blease, Charlotte; Carel, Havi; Geraghty, Keith (August 1, 2017). "Epistemic injustice in healthcare encounters: evidence from chronic fatigue syndrome". Journal of Medical Ethics. 43 (8): 549–557. doi:10.1136/medethics-2016-103691. ISSN 0306-6800. PMID 27920164.
- ↑ Friedberg, Fred (January 2, 2020). "Legitimizing myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: indications of change over a decade". Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior. 8 (1): 24–31. doi:10.1080/21641846.2020.1718292. ISSN 2164-1846.
- ↑ McManimen, Stephanie; McClellan, Damani; Stoothoff, Jamie; Gleason, Kristen; Jason, Leonard A. (March 4, 2019). "Dismissing chronic illness: A qualitative analysis of negative health care experiences". Health Care for Women International: 1–18. doi:10.1080/07399332.2018.1521811. ISSN 0739-9332.
