Hey Dr, Can You Stop Gaslighting Me Please?

The default patient in medical research has typically been a white, heterosexual man from Pennsylvania. Let’s call him Andrew. So where does that leave everyone else in medicine? There’s increasing evidence of the way women’s symptoms and conditions are downplayed or ignored in healthcare. But move over medical misogyny - medical gaslighting is here not only to borrow therapy speak, but to broaden the even more overlooked populations in healthcare. This includes POC, the poor, people with disability, LGBTQI+ and the elderly. This episode will explore what is needed to address medical gaslighting -- systemically -- but also what individuals can do. The Antoinettes also share their recent experiences of gaslighting, although one Antoinette has been so effectively gaslit, she struggles to remember it happening to her! Click here to subscribe to The Antoinettes. Keep the chat going on our Facebook group and suggest topics for us to debate! Sign up to the The Antoinettes newsletter for all our recommendations and behind-the-scenes content in one place. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok. The Antoinettes acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Produced by DM podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.