Medical Gaslighting | Dr. Taz MD

Let’s put medical gaslighting in the past. Here are the warning signs that you’re being gaslit by your doctor, and what you can do to prevent medical gaslighting incidents moving forward.

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[slovokia]

I have had ME/CFS for 26 years. Gaslighting is what people do when they consider themselves to be authority figures who have the power to deligitimize the reality experienced by people who have less power than they do. Unfortunately some physicians think of themselves as folks who fully understand the human body - when they encounter patients that they do not understand it is a challange to their ego. They resolve that challenge by deligitimizing their patients reality. Gaslighting is one way to do that. Such physicians think of their patients as subordinates not as employers.

[Kate-lwlu]

You are on target Dr. Taz! I had an amazing doctor years ago that had a firm rule of your first appointment with her was an interview. She gave her background and what she believed and what she expected from you as a patient, the I was required to tell her my expectations of her as my doctor. To this day she has remained my inspiration to never take my own health care for granted when choosing a doctor. It’s a wonderful feeling when you find a doctor that practices active listening and doesn’t dismiss your concerns. A big heartfelt thank you to you for being the amazing person and health practitioner that you are. You bring much inspiration and holistic female products that have made a major improvement in my life, especially being peril menopause. ❤️🤗

[janncoons]

I'm more than painfully aware of medical gaslighting. I want to know what's being done about it. If a nation is judged by how it treats its elderly and animals we are at the bottom of that list. What do I do now? I'm sick and can't find any help. I attempted 3 1/2 4 years ago to get help. I think we're now at the stage we can just sit back and wait till I die America sucks

[BTFRC]

♡♡♡ I'm so glad your a dr. and are actively combating this!! I just saw a new psychiatrist and I was so hopeful he would understand... and he completely ignored my previous diagnosis and said they weren't real, and also said I wasn't physically disabled enough to matter. All in the first 10 mins. I still hope one day I'll find a single Dr. I can fi ally trust with my health issues tho.

[brooks]

Be aware if you have over one specialist and they keep passing you back and forth but not treating you.

[naomi]

I’ve had this happen so often that I’ve started to think that there must be something about me/my personality that makes doctors disbelieve me. I once broke my arm and the triage nurse wouldn’t believe me - it took 3 weeks to get an x-ray via my primary care doctor that showed that my arm was broken. The nurse had told me off for putting it in a sling and said I caused the lasting pain by putting it in the sling and I’d apologised to her! And that’s just my least harrowing example. Thank you for this video - it clarifies exactly what’s missing in those appointments, it’s leaving with a plan and feeling like they listened rather than rattling off the most convenient diagnosis without hearing any of the details.

[blurocktech]

I live in the UK and just about every doctor I've seen through the NHS has gaslit my low immunity and chronic illness. I don't know what to do because I think most of the doctors here are just like this.

[lreynolds]

Went to a GP in Scotland today. My routine blood tests came back normal. However, I still have symptoms (most of these I have had for around a year) like extreme tiredness, swollen lymph nodes (I assumed that he - the doctor - would at least want to feel them as they have been there for so long, random rashes (which I have pictures of), random fevers, sudden onset alcohol intolerance, itchiness on and off to the point of sometimes bleeding because I've itched so much, chronic pain, increase in mouth ulcers. He basically just said I was young and that considering my main bloods were normal it wasn't really worth doing more tests as a diagnosis wouldn't change the symptoms and that I should just 'pace' myself...It took me MONTHS to even see a GP because I wanted to make sure I definitely wasn't making it up, I adjusted my sleep habits so I knew I was getting enough sleep, I worked on de-stressing, don't go out as much, eat relatively healthy etc etc (told him all this too). I also have atrial fibrillation and flutter and wanted to get some info on that because things like stress tests weren't carried out (he just said I was young and this was probably triggered by stress). He only really spoke to me about my tiredness saying it was so non-specific. So I was like 'well here are all these other symptoms too' and he just ignored them basically. He said if I was really wanting to push he 'supposed' he could refer me to get one more blood test done to 'almost certainly' rule out connective tissue autoimmune diseases. He asked me (the only specific question) if I had joint pain and I asked him to clarify what he meant in terms of like what kind of pain counts and he said well if you need to ask that's a no, you'd know if you had it *all the while while kind of gloating/smirking* and I said no well actually I had pain in my wrists and fingers also knees and that when I was younger because I had wrist problems it was suggested I be referred to someone who deals with childhood arthritis just to rule that out in the wrist I injured multiple times but we had never followed up, also said I have chronic pain generally. He asked me what I thought i had and I was like well I'm not sure??? He was like well exactly. I asked whether he wanted me to come in with an exact idea of what I had and he was like 'well yeah actually'. I then said 'ok well for example I tick all the symptoms of lupus including malar rash' he was like yeah but you can't really do a guaranteed test for diagnosis of that it more like IF you fit the criteria you can be diagnosed but you'd have to have a history (I was like I do here's all the photographic evidence and dates. Then I was sent away with nothing, no plan, just 'you have to pace yourself' (as if I'm not doing my best already, if I could pace myself and get on with my daily life I wouldn't be here). As I said I'm also more concerned that he didn't attempt to physically check me like lymph nodes wise. Came out and basically cried. He was incredibly dismissive (this isn't even half of it but) from the start.

[lisaschaeffer]

Since it happens to mostly women, it is sexism.

[luckyintheorder]

I don't go to medical professionals any longer due to this mal-practice of the Hippocratic oath. Healthcare is a myth. Certainly appreciate your concise approach to all your videos and honesty about food being a factor in people's health.

[danielalonzo]

Thank you Doctor Taz. Picking the right dr is crucial for a productive relationship with a health care providers

[Dulcimerist]

I was born with hypermobile type Ehlers Danlos syndrome, with the diagnosis delayed until age 38, due to gaslighting and incompetent doctors.

[TessaOswin]

I’ve had doctors who dismissed me in 2 minutes and I’ve had a doctor who was comfortable enough to google the spelling of the diagnosis to make sure they had the right one. I know which one I preferred.

[_Lightning_Dog_]

The reoccurring theme for me is my concerns being dismissed as “rare”. “Rare” means they have no intention to address any of it. Crippled by statins? Rare. Keep taking them. Dental scaling and root planing made a bad situation worse? Rare. Keep having it done. Dilation eye drops at optometrist damaged eyes? Rare. Get dilated once a year. Antidepressants caused serotonin syndrome? Rare. Keep taking them.

[palleh]

I recognize this so much, this happens probably very often. I died alive because my doctor did this 10 years ago.

[Drebln]

Doctors that start telling you how you don't have a PhD and should basically stop talking.

[sparklemotion]

I am from a minority group and have been gaslit by two female doctors from another minority group. Sure I have been gaslit by plenty Dutch female doctors and therapists but I doubt it would be any different if was a female doctor from my part of the mountain. I remain a person of no consequences.
I wish I had a GP as kind and empathic as my dentist.

[Drebln]

I brought my MRI scans with me and my doctor refused to look at them.

[hunnybadger]

No one even listens... and it cost me my life...

[johnathanabrams]

Gender is fluid
Race is a social construct

Seems like you have internalized misogyny.