“Iatrogenic PTSD: When Healthcare Becomes the Source of Trauma”
This is the term I suggest for describing what many chronic complex disease patients develop after repeated dismissal, invalidation, and gaslighting by healthcare professionals.
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In very simple terms, iatrogenic means caused by medical treatment or by the hands of physicians. But how do the very hands expected to heal end up leaving people traumatized?
