TY - JOUR T1 - They Didn’t Believe Her Pain: My Education in Interpersonal Violence JF - The Annals of Family Medicine JO - Ann Fam Med SP - 361 LP - 363 DO - 10.1370/afm.2266 VL - 16 IS - 4 AU - Amelia Goodfellow AU - Curtis Bone AU - Lillian Gelberg Y1 - 2018/07/01 UR - http://www.annfammed.org/content/16/4/361.abstract N2 - 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. ER -