After a medical gaslighting experience of her own during pregnancy, journalist Elaine Welteroth is speaking out against it, sharing why it is particularly dangerous, given the state of the Black maternal mortality crisis.
https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/trackclk/N8893.2417516WELLANDGOOD/B30668498.377120020;d[…]rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;tfua=;ltd=;dc_tdv=1“We are all susceptible, regardless of what level of education you have, or your socioeconomic status, or your network.
It was hard for me to accept that medical gaslighting was happening to me, because I’m both well-educated and an advocate for issues that matter to me. I felt I should be equipped to navigate it. And yet, there was a moment during one of the last doctor’s appointments during my pregnancy that sticks out [as an example of overt medical gaslighting].
At that point, I told myself I would not put myself in this position again—to be made to feel like a fool, to be talked to disrespectfully, to be dismissed. I deserved better than this. I was so grateful at that turning point to have the awareness of midwives and the Black-owned midwifery birthing center in Los Angeles,, where I ultimately gave birth; it saved me in my most vulnerable state and gave me this better option.
I had to practice what I've been preaching around “hell yes” or “hell no” in the most consequential way when I was pregnant and when I was going through childbirth. In all other applications of the phrase, it's not life or death. For instance, whether I go to the party or not may have some impact on my mental health, but it's not going to be life or death the way it may when I'm choosing a doctor to deliver my baby.There’s one more guiding principle of yours I’d like to discuss.
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