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How to Address 'Medical Gaslighting' - Scientific American
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I didn't say it isn't a problem, but that the doctors aren't doing it on purpose. They aren't manipulating people for their own ends. "Gaslighting" implies they are.
It is a real issue that needs to be addressed, as is the issue of the wrong kinds of systems and institutions being used (ER for chronic conditions, like you said, for example).
But the doctors aren't doing this on purpose like an abuser who wants to keep someone under their thumb.