tiktok foids agree: There is a sexist #MedicalGaslighting epidemic/conspiracy by basically all doctors to dismiss your vague set of non-specific symptoms as psychosomatic

Editor's note: Diane O'Leary is a philosopher of medicine and a 2023 Public Voices Fellow on Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls with the OpEd Project and Equality Now.

Wtf is a philosopher of medicine lol

Frustration over medical gaslighting is heating up again, with more than 262 million views for #medicalgaslighting on TikTok. What we see in this stream of thousands of posts on social media are firsthand stories from patients, mostly women, who say doctors have ignored, minimized or dismissed their symptoms as stress or anxiety, often with severe consequences.

Yeah sure.. "severe consequences!" Nice way to thank your healthcare providers for keeping you alive!

We've been here before. In 2018, the “incendiary healthcare hashtag” of #doctorsaredickheads, gathered so many gaslighting stories so quickly on Twitter that an analysis of its data seemed to suggest that women patients were ready to storm the metaphorical gates of the medical profession. It seemed that we might actually be on the cusp of change, as a long list of new journ*listic memoirs on the issue were then published — one, “The Invisible Kingdom,” a bestseller. But here we are, five years after that social media storm, measuring the size of public frustration once again, as if the idea of medical gaslighting is brand new.

Ah yes. What else can be said that hasn't already been said about the most brilliant rally cry for patient's rights everywhere in the last century, #doctorsaredickheads! I remember the first time I heard this phrase, about 10 minutes ago, it filled me with such powerful emotions and even spontaneous recovery of memories!

The rest of the article is too cringe so I'll skip to what it made me think of.

I used to work for Costco when I was a very young lad and once upon a time someone fainted in the back of the store near one of the sample stands.

Naturally, some lady their vicinity asked "Did they eat the sample?" followed by another lady saying "I ate the sample too!" who fainted. From there what can only be described as a wave of faintings spread like wild fire across the whole crowded store as dozens of woman sample enjoyers fell victim to the worst biological terrorist attack in the history of retail. They were all rushed to the hospital where they were all unfortunately diagnosed as females.

The CDC was called in to investigate the deadly samples and after a comprehensive scientific analysis of the facts, it was amazingly determined that Patient Zero, the original fainter, had not in fact consoomed the samples, and that the faintings were indeed a case of mass hysteria due to a terminal gender condition.

Bonus thread of doctors whining about foids whining:

https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/16bz9gm/opinion_heres_why_medicalgaslighting_has_taken