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‘Gaslit by doctors’: UK women with endometriosis told it is ‘all in their head’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Interestingly, when I’ve happened upon threads (in r/twoX mostly) about this phenomenon, many women argued that female doctors were worse about this issue in particular — namely, gaslighting re: severity of pain.
The favored explanations were that female providers tended to relativize the pain described by a patient to the provider’s own experience whereas male providers had no personal experience and thus less reason to downplay, or that, while male doctors face the same pressure to under-prescribe pain medication, female doctors were more comfortable telling a patient that period pain was normal.