PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Goodfellow, Amelia AU - Bone, Curtis AU - Gelberg, Lillian TI - They Didn’t Believe Her Pain: My Education in Interpersonal Violence AID - 10.1370/afm.2266 DP - 2018 Jul 01 TA - The Annals of Family Medicine PG - 361--363 VI - 16 IP - 4 4099 - http://www.annfammed.org/content/16/4/361.short 4100 - http://www.annfammed.org/content/16/4/361.full SO - Ann Fam Med2018 Jul 01; 16 AB - In my first year of medical school, I began to care for patients who were survivors of interpersonal violence. As I transitioned from didactics to clinical experiences, I was struck by how common the hidden threads of physical and sexual violence were in my patients’ stories of chronic pain, depression, and poor health outcomes. Their symptoms often seemed intangible and challenging to treat, unable to fit neatly into typical diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms. In response, I saw clinicians become frustrated and dissatisfied with their ability to treat these patients. Better care for survivors may begin simply with believing our patients’ pain.