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Allyson Bontempo, PhD

@acbontempo.bsky.social
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Postdoc research fellow at Rutgers RWJMS | Patient-clinician communication. | #Diagnosis | #Invalidation | #Endometriosis | Stay curious.

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Allyson Bontempo, PhD @acbontempo.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Today is the first day of Endometriosis Awareness Month! If you are 18+ and an adult with #endo, consider taking part in this 15-minute anonymous #survey. We are attempting to validate a measure to assess patient self-reports of #invalidation within a given healthcare interaction.
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Allyson Bontempo, PhD @acbontempo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Take a peek at this article about our new publication! www.rutgers.edu/news/when-do...
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When Doctors Dismiss Symptoms, Patients Suffer Lasting Harm
A Rutgers Health review of 151 studies finds that minimizing unexplained symptoms sparks shame, trauma and avoidance of care.
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Allyson Bontempo, PhD @acbontempo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Check out this super well written, well-researched article in the Smithsonian, for which I am grateful to have had the opportunity to be interviewed for: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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For Some Women With Serious Physical Ailments, Mental Illness Has Become a Scapegoat Diagnosis
Patients with difficult-to-diagnose conditions like endometriosis are often sent home with diagnoses like anxiety or bipolar disorder
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Allyson Bontempo, PhD @acbontempo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Have you ever felt your symptoms were dismissed by a doctor? Consider adopting my new term: symptom invalidation. 📚 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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