Dr. Aaron Hartman describes a woman who died of a heart attack three days after doctors sent her home with antacids for chest pain, mistaking it for a gut issue. Women's cardiac symptoms are often dismissed as gastrointestinal problems, a pattern he calls medical gaslighting that costs lives.
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She came to the ER with chest pain, was sent home with antacids, told it was her gut. Gastria, don't worry about it. Three days later, she was dead. What happened? How did our healthcare system miss a heart attack? Heart issues in women, because we've been doing this thing called medical gaslighting over the last 20, 30, 40, 50, maybe the entirety of human history in medicine where we ignore symptoms that women have and we say, it's all in your head, there's nothing wrong with you, we can't be helped, send you on their way. For decades, even today, a lot of women are blown off because their gut symptoms related to their heart are ignored. My question for you right now is have been medical gaslit before. How and whom? Share with us below what's happened to you when you feel like people have ignored your symptoms, blown you off, and you found out something serious was going on? This is still an issue today and over the next month or two, we'll talk about these. And we want you to start looking for these in your life because ultimately, how you protect yourself is knowing where these medical blind spots and this gas line happen to prevent it for you.