read a paper on medical dismissal in long covid patients and it was like watching someone catalog my last two years… not the obvious stuff - everyone knows the “it’s all in your head” dismissals happen. what stuck was the documentation of what comes after… my doc saw my crash data (fifteen min walk → two days of brain fog and dysautonomia symptoms), said it looked like “obsessive health anxiety” rather than pacing mechanics… told me i didn’t need to pace, just do normal activities. the paper called this iatrogenic harm - damage inflicted by the medical system itself, separate from the condition.
what i didn’t expect was how much that one appointment rewired me. now i second-guess even the patterns i’ve logged, wonder if i’m just anxious about being sick… imo can’t separate the real symptoms from the doubt i developed in that office. has the research on medical dismissal changed how you process your own doctor encounters? or does naming it not really help? that’s my take.