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"How medical training promotes medical gaslighting" by K. Johnstone
https://mecfs.substack.com/p/how-medical-training-promotes-medical
This is not illness specific.
#chronicillness #hiddenillness #invisibleillness @longcovid
#LongCovid #MEcfs
@mecfs #ChronicIllnesses
#Spoonies
#Spoonie
#ChronicallyIll
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From:
"How medical training promotes medical gaslighting" by K. Johnstone
https://mecfs.substack.com/p/how-medical-training-promotes-medical
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Includes subsections under the category of "Failures in medical training that promote medical gaslighting" with the following headings:
• Insufficient preparation for chronic illness
• Common and serious diseases are neglected in medical training
• Psychosomatic illness
• Inability to accept uncertainty
#MedicalGaslighting #Gaslighting #MedMastodon
@longcovid @mecfs #chronicillness #spoonies #NEISvoid #chronicillnesses #hiddenillnesses
@tomkindlon
Very kind of you to share this.
Lots of things could be done better, and many which were done worse, now are.
Let me invite you to consider the occasional person who notes something rather minor - in their own estimation - and asks their medical attendant if it might be significant.
Telling them that various tests are required to demonstrate it is not, and then protracting that process, and declining to tell them they seem healthy, can leave them damaged.
Difficult, what?
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