How medical gaslighting almost cost me my life
An excerpt from Whispers of the Mind: A Neurologist’s Memoir.
I have never been one to seek out medical care, as I have been fortunate to have been in excellent health most of my life. So, when I presented to my GYN for my yearly follow-up, I brought up my first health complaint in the twenty years I had been seeing her, abnormal bleeding. We were colleagues and she knew …