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For years, nurse practitioner Dr. Efrat Lamandre ("Dr. E") told patients with normal labs that nothing was wrong with them. She now calls that habit unintentional gaslighting, and calls herself a recovering medical gaslighter.
Her new book, The Problem with Good Patients, turns attention to the other side of the exam table: the pre-emptive apologies, the deference, the quiet decision to trust a lab value over what the body is saying. She traces that pattern back to the sticker and lollipop at the pediatrician's office.
Then, after finishing the book, she spent six months talking herself out of an MRI for back pain she didn't want to bother her colleagues about.
Dr. E joins Dr. Philip Ovadia and Jack Heald to talk about the skills capable adults abandon at the clinic door, why one doctor was never meant to be a whole team, how to tell a credible integrative practitioner from a sales pitch, and the one sentence every patient should learn to translate.
Find Dr. E's podcast and the book, available for presale, at medicaldisruptor.com.
BIG IDEA
When you hear "There's nothing wrong with you," you need to hear "I ran out of tools," and then find somebody with a different toolbox.
Contact Info: Dr. Efrat LaMandre
• Website: https://MedicalDisruptor.com
• The Medical Disrupter Podcast: https://www.drefratlamandre.com/e-podcasts
Prior Appearance on "Stay Off My Operating Table"
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1810620/episodes/11967469
Books:
"It's Not In Your Head" - https://amzn.to/4qQpQaL
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