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The Problem With Good Patients: Why Politeness in the Exam Room Can Cost You - Dr. Efrat Lamandre

For years, nurse practitioner Dr. Efrat Lamandre ("Dr. E") told patients with normal labs that nothing was wrong with them. She now calls that habit unintentional gaslighting, and calls herself a recovering medical gaslighter. Her new book, The Problem with Good Patients, turns attention to the other side of the exam table: the pre-emptive apologies, the deference, the quiet decision to trust a lab value over what the body is saying. She traces that pattern back to the sticker and lollipop at the pediatrician's office. Then, after finishing the book, she spent six months talking herself out of an MRI for back pain she didn't want to bother her colleagues about. Dr. E joins Dr. Philip Ovadia and Jack Heald to talk about the skills capable adults abandon at the clinic door, why one doctor…