Russell Williams
Well-Known Member
How are we to deal with this stuff? On the patient and doctor basis one possibility is to explain to the doctor that you do not wish to waste your money and therefore want to be sure to use the most successful diet program.
If the doctor says that the patient should choose the patient can explain that they are not a medical professional and that the doctor can certainly evaluate the programs better than the patient and that therefore you as the patient will continue the discussion with the doctor once he is in a position to tell you what the very best program is.
Should the doctor tell the patient that a particular diet program is the very best the doctor can then be asked if he would object to the patient going to the sites of other diet programs and, as people go toward the door of the place, explain to the customers that Dr. so-and-so says this program is not as good as such and such and that therefore they should stop attending the program they are attending and go to the doctor recommended program. I suspect that most doctors would not be foolish enough to want to be publicly quoted to members of other programs because a smart and informed Dr. will know he cannot back his statement up with scientific data.
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Against the recommendation of their scientific advisors, the AMA declares obesity a disease. Many believe this will further damage the already fragile relationship between physician and fat patient.
Patients of high body weight are one of the groups of people who are least inclined to seek medical attention because of the discrimination they face.
Physician's weight bias, already a major problem, is now moving beyond just stigmatization to clear dislike and negativity toward the overweight, (Brochu P., Esses V., [2009]). Couple this with the fact that physicians have received insufficient or no training to address or examine fat patients and are frustrated with the lack of resources available to them (Amy NK, et al [2006]), setting the stage for a powder keg of discrimination, the likes of which we have never seen before.
Into this environment of bias and discrimination, the American Medical Association (AMA) declares that obesity is a disease. "The AMA just put its official stamp of approval on the widespread weight bias of physicians." stated NAAFA Advisory Board Member Dr. Deb Burgard. "This act furthers the 'War on the Obese.' Economic greed and weight stigma have trumped science and the advice of the AMA's own expert committee, and it is a sad day for the relationship between doctors and their higher-weight patients...People are losing confidence that their doctors have their best interests at heart...This decision represents a clear victory of economic interests over science."
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If the doctor says that the patient should choose the patient can explain that they are not a medical professional and that the doctor can certainly evaluate the programs better than the patient and that therefore you as the patient will continue the discussion with the doctor once he is in a position to tell you what the very best program is.
Should the doctor tell the patient that a particular diet program is the very best the doctor can then be asked if he would object to the patient going to the sites of other diet programs and, as people go toward the door of the place, explain to the customers that Dr. so-and-so says this program is not as good as such and such and that therefore they should stop attending the program they are attending and go to the doctor recommended program. I suspect that most doctors would not be foolish enough to want to be publicly quoted to members of other programs because a smart and informed Dr. will know he cannot back his statement up with scientific data.
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Against the recommendation of their scientific advisors, the AMA declares obesity a disease. Many believe this will further damage the already fragile relationship between physician and fat patient.
Patients of high body weight are one of the groups of people who are least inclined to seek medical attention because of the discrimination they face.
Physician's weight bias, already a major problem, is now moving beyond just stigmatization to clear dislike and negativity toward the overweight, (Brochu P., Esses V., [2009]). Couple this with the fact that physicians have received insufficient or no training to address or examine fat patients and are frustrated with the lack of resources available to them (Amy NK, et al [2006]), setting the stage for a powder keg of discrimination, the likes of which we have never seen before.
Into this environment of bias and discrimination, the American Medical Association (AMA) declares that obesity is a disease. "The AMA just put its official stamp of approval on the widespread weight bias of physicians." stated NAAFA Advisory Board Member Dr. Deb Burgard. "This act furthers the 'War on the Obese.' Economic greed and weight stigma have trumped science and the advice of the AMA's own expert committee, and it is a sad day for the relationship between doctors and their higher-weight patients...People are losing confidence that their doctors have their best interests at heart...This decision represents a clear victory of economic interests over science."
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