105: It Takes Two to Gaslight with Dr. E: A New Way to Understand Medical Dismissal

Hormones, Metabolism & You! · Apr 5, 2026 · 51m

You’ve been told everything is “normal”… but you know something isn’t right. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Efrat LaMandre to unpack one of the most frustrating and isolating experiences in healthcare today: medical gaslighting. We dive into what it actually is, why it happens more often than we think, and the deeper systemic patterns inside medicine that lead providers to dismiss symptoms when labs don’t tell the full story. This is not about blaming doctors, it is about understanding the gap between patient experience and clinical training so we can start to bridge it. Together, we…