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Letters Medical gaslighting

Medical gaslighting: to say that invoking psychological symptoms is equivalent to dismissal is reductionist

BMJ 2022; 378 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o2236 (Published 15 September 2022) Cite this as: BMJ 2022;378:o2236
  1. Michael Sharpe, professor of psychological medicine
  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
  1. michael.sharpe{at}psych.ox.ac.uk

The news article on medical gaslighting raises the important point that doctors should always accept patient concerns about symptoms and never dismiss them as imaginary.1 But …

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