MEDICAL GASLIGHTING

Ready to read the shocking tell-all about medical gaslighting?! 🫣🔥

Well, you *almost* can! Just nine more days until MEDICAL GASLIGHTING: How to Get the Care You Deserve in a System That Makes You Fight For Your Life is released. But you can pre-order your copy now— or pick up a copy anywhere books are sold on October 1st. 

Do you often feel dissatisfied with your recent visit to your doctor? Whether it is your primary care doctor or a specialist, you need to ask questions and not be passive about your diagnoses and treatments. If your physician is truly good, he/she will gladly answer your questions. Most physicians are on a tight schedule and sometimes only spend ten to fifteen minutes with each patient. Don't let them leave until you are satisfied with your questions. A quality physician will always take time to answer important questions.   If they don't it is time to find a new doctor.

Medical Gaslighting by Ilana Jacqueline offers her excellent new book.

For women, the possibility of experiencing medical gaslighting—having a health care provider dismiss or ignore their concerns without considering appropriate testing or creating a treatment plan—has always been a very real and present danger, with consequences ranging from self-doubt and emotional stress to delayed diagnosis and death. And being a woman of color, transgender, or disabled only compounds the risk.

Today, more women are aware of medical gaslighting than ever—but awareness isn’t enough. In Medical Gaslighting, you’ll equip yourself with the tools you need to be fully heard at every step of the process, including:

Mastering the ability to request, revise, and read your electronic medical records so you and your medical team are on the same page. Responding effectively when you recognize the signs, language, and scenarios associated with medical gaslighting. Give yourself a fighting chance against common medical bias by being mindful of how you present yourself as a patient.

With expert advice and stories from women across the medical spectrum who fought medical gaslighting and lived to tell their stories, patient advocate (and rare disease patient), Ilana Jacqueline provides a combat guide for increasing your confidence—and success—when advocating for your health. You might have to get naked in the exam room, but you don’t have to walk in unarmed. Medical Gaslighting is your guide to taking control of your healthcare.