This isn’t about body positivity. They can still be obese and need to lose weight. They can have other health conditions directly and immediately caused by being overweight. But there is an all too real and all too common experience of doctors refusing to even consider other ailments simply because the patient is obese.
That is not okay. Even if they see a hundred patients a day where their issues are only caused by being obese, they cannot be allowed to fall into the mindset where that is what they immediately assume.
This isn’t about body positivity. They can still be obese and need to lose weight. They can have other health conditions directly and immediately caused by being overweight. But there is an all too real and all too common experience of doctors refusing to even consider other ailments simply because the patient is obese.
That is not okay. Even if they see a hundred patients a day where their issues are only caused by being obese, they cannot be allowed to fall into the mindset where that is what they immediately assume.