Medical Mis-Treatment

Medical Gaslighting: How physicians fail a significant portion of the population

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My body betrayed me. But so did the medical team charged with caring for me.

I stepped on the scale at my doctor’s office and she says, “No way are you’re 205 pounds. No way.”

I remain silent. I find silence platinum when I have nothing nice to add to the conversation.