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gaslight patients

  1. SWAlexander

    Doctors have been taught to gaslight patients with #ME for decades.

    Doctors have been taught to gaslight patients with #ME for decades. This video from the 90s teaches GPs that patients are frustrating to work with because they are mistaken about the cause of the illness and can often engage in arguments. Myalgic encephalomyelitis: Lives devastated - and...