MEDICAL GASLIGHTING at the Individual-Personal and Institutional-Global Levels
Indeed, we could reasonably conclude that gaslighting is inherently built into the system of medicine, given the medical profession’s consistent endorsement of bogus drug treatments
MEDICAL GASLIGHTING at the Individual-Personal Level
A recent (Oct2023) CME presentation by Nicole Rochester MD titled “Medical Gaslighting"1 has finally given us the language for the common experience that nearly all of us have had—that of having our concerns minimized or completely ignored by medical doctors and other healthcare providers. Dr Rochester presents the definition of medical gaslighting as “a form of manipulation in which healthcare providers make a patient doubt their symptoms, experiences, or feelings.” The consequences include not simply poor quality healthcare in the moment of the gaslighting experience, but also reduced trust and comfort in healthcare utilization that leads to delayed care in the future.
Indeed, we could reasonably conclude that gaslighting is inherently built into the system of medicine, given the medical profession’s consistent endorsement of bogus drug treatments such as SSRIs, statins, and certain injections and the overall stance that “drugs and surgeries are the solutions to all health problems”, including obesity caused by toxic overeating, as I reviewed previously:
MEDICAL GASLIGHTING at the Institutional-Global Level
I have documented many occasions of medical gaslighting at the institutional level and more recently at the global level; examples include:
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE commonly publishes garbage research that serves to promote drug sales, discourage use of nutrition and autonomous/nondrug self-care; examples are numerous and practically innumerable but include the bogus publication in 2006 that intentionally confused the entire topic of glucosamine in the treatment of osteoarthritis and their horrific 2018 publications on fish oil in order to promote sales of a patented high-profit overpriced prescription-only n3 product.
JAMA—JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION commonly publishes garbage research that serves to promote drug sales, discourage use of nutrition and autonomous/nondrug self-care; examples are numerous and practically innumerable but include the bogus publication in 2021 that misused vitamin D and delayed treatment for nearly 2 weeks in order to reach the pro-pharma pro-lockdown conclusion that vitamin D was not effective when clearly it was one of the most effective treatments against Sars-CoV-2:
BMJ—BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL commonly publishes garbage research that serves to promote drug sales, discourage use of nutrition and autonomous/nondrug self-care; examples are numerous and practically innumerable but include the bogus publication in 2019 falsely claimed that the HPV injection was to credit for the reduction in Scotland’s HPV rate when in fact the country had started a vitamin D supplementation program at exactly the same time:
THE LANCET commonly publishes garbage research that serves to promote drug sales, discourage use of nutrition and autonomous/nondrug self-care; examples are numerous and practically innumerable but include the bogus publication in 2021 that conflated vitamin D supplementation with drinking beer and thereby contributed to intentional and needless infections and deaths of millions of people—a direct and clear example of scientific sabotage of the entire system and structure of healthcare:
MEDSCAPE commonly publishes garbage infomercials that serve to promote drug sales, discourage use of nutrition and autonomous/nondrug self-care; examples are numerous and practically innumerable but include their many bogus publications and video reviews against nutrition.
Governmental and nongovernmental medical “health” organizations commonly publish garbage infomercials that serve to promote drug sales, discourage use of nutrition and autonomous/nondrug self-care; examples are numerous and practically innumerable but include nonstop fear-mongering and statistical fakery.
Indeed, we could reasonably conclude that gaslighting is inherently built into the system of medicine, given the medical profession’s consistent endorsement of bogus drug treatments such as SSRIs, statins, and certain injections and the overall stance that “drugs and surgeries are the solutions to all health problems.” DrV
Tulane MS in Bioethics and Medical Humanities. "Nicole Rochester MD: Medical Gaslighting" Oct 27, 2023 youtube.com/watch?v=Xkk2s_ZN2fA This presentation is approved for CME (continuing medical education)
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