When your doctor demeans your symptoms.

[Darryl]

Medical gasliighting is real. It's when your health concerns are dismissed by a medical provider,

Here's a story from today's NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/07/29/well...

Please share any stories you have regarding an instance when:

Your provider continually interrupts you, doesn’t allow you to elaborate and doesn’t appear to be an engaged listener.

Your provider minimizes or downplays your symptoms, for example questioning whether you have pain.

Your provider refuses to discuss your symptoms.

Your provider will not order key imaging or lab work to rule out or confirm a diagnosis.

You feel that your provider is being rude, condescending or belittling.

Your symptoms are blamed on mental illness, but you are not provided with a mental health referral or screened for such illness.

[maley2711]

Darryl.....

Thanks for both those posts today!!!!!!

[Yank66]

Like when a radiologist administering Pluvicto tells you that “you don’t have fatigue” because you try to stay active?

[Derf4223]

Paywalled article

[Darryl Partner in reply to Derf4223]

Try again with a different browser

[Mascouche in reply to Darryl]

Hi Darryl,

I've hit the paywall with Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox. Which browser lets you bypass the paywall of that article?

[Darryl Partner in reply to Mascouche]

Safari or try just going to nytimes.com and then find the article If you’re still blocked out, then try google and if all fails, then apologies for your lack of access

[dhccpa]

If you don't get an earful I'll be stunned. Finding a solution is never simple.

[Sunnysailor]

when my husband had neutropenia and hospitalized for infection. His oncologist told him eating raw fruits and vegetables would help. The charge nurse basically came to us after and said to not listen because people with neutropenia should not eat raw fruits and veggies because food poisoning can kill you with no immune system.

[Derf4223]

The more educated you can be about your case, relevant trials, and possible treatments, the better it will go with one's doctor. Their typical PCa patient is not any of these and may waste time with internet search stale/out-of-context information. Their typical patient is elderly and I think if the patient is also mal-informed or plain ignorant, condescension is quite possible. Come prepared and drop terms like NCCN guidelines, both of which reduce time wastage, and things will go better.