What if medical gaslighting isn't always a shitty doctor refusing to listen? Sometimes it is—but sometimes you've simply reached the limits of what that clinician, specialty, or insurance-based medical system was designed to do.
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. E, a nurse practitioner with a PhD in integrative medicine, to unpack medical gaslighting, conventional vs. functional medicine, navigating insurance-based healthcare, and why being the CEO of your own health sometimes means building an entire team instead of expecting one provider to have every answer. Then the conversation takes a very personal turn: Dr. E shares how she ignored her own symptoms for six months, ultimately discovering stage 4 lung cancer—and why self-gaslighting may be one of the most dangerous pieces of this entire conversation.
