NYTimes: Medical Gaslighting

Question 1

Diagnostic Errors by Physicians

Answer 1

Occur in up to one out of every seven encounters between a doctor and patient, most are driven by the physician’s lack of knowledge

Question 2

Medical Gaslighting

Answer 2

Term being used by patients who feel that their symptoms were inappropriately dismissed as minor or psychological by their doctors, phenomenon most commonly seen in women and people of color

Question 3

Misdiagnosis of Women

Answer 3

May be because scientists know far less about the female body than the male body

Question 4

1993 Law

Answer 4

Mandated women and minorities be included in medical research funded by the NIH