YOUR ROLE: WHAT YOU CAN DO TO GET MORE OUT OF YOUR CARE AND YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR DOCTOR ("IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD.")
Women are apt to attribute their symptoms to something they did wrong. In painting a problem as their own fault, they play into an already problematic tradition in which doctors blame women for their symptoms, or tell them "It's all in your head." One example he gives is the woman who comes into his office and says that she has had chronic headaches as of late. She suggests that her headaches are caused by tension she created in the workplace by getting on her boss's nerves. Don't plant those self-deprecating concepts in your doctor's mind, Inui urges. Report your symptoms, how you feel and how long you've felt that way, when the symptoms get worse and how it's all affecting you emotionally. But leave the diagnosis to the doctor. Don't add to the already rife problems of the doctor-female patient relationship with inappropriate self-blame.
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