Community Conversation
Medical Gaslighting: How to Extinguish the Flames as a Health Advocate
Medical gaslighting is a form of manipulation by healthcare providers in which patients are made to doubt their symptoms, experiences, or feelings. It contributes to delayed diagnosis, medical mistrust and poor outcomes and occurs more commonly among women, racial and ethnic minorities, and other marginalized patient groups. Independent health advocates can play a role in identifying and mitigating medical gaslighting.
Learning Objectives:
1) Define and recognize medical gaslighting
2) Understand the impact of medical gaslighting on patients and families
3) Utilize a framework for preventing and mitigating medical gaslighting
Available for 1.0 BCPA CE credit (General)
About The Speaker –
Dr. Nicole T. Rochester
Dr. Nicole T. Rochester is a pediatrician, TEDx and keynote speaker, and the CEO of Your GPS Doc, LLC, a healthcare advocacy and consulting company committed to eliminating health disparities and bridging the gap between healthcare providers, patients, and family caregivers. She was inspired to start her company after caring for her late father and witnessing the complicated healthcare system from the other side of the stethoscope.
Dr. Rochester has an active presence on social media and has contributed to numerous digital publications. She is a dynamic and engaging nationally recognized speaker who connects deeply with her audiences when presenting about navigating the healthcare system, elevating the patient and family caregiver voice, diversity, equity and inclusion in the healthcare workforce, and eliminating health inequities.
Dr. Rochester obtained her undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University, her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Medical Association, the Alliance of Professional Health Advocates, HealthAdvocateX and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Most importantly, she is the proud mother of two young adult daughters.