Obesity affects millions of people and is linked to other chronic conditions. But doctors are still taught very little about the causes of obesity — and even less about how to counsel patients.
underscore that obesity, like many other illnesses, can be treated with drugs, rather than will power alone.
Yan recoiled from the exchange. He knew that ran counter to what he'd learned in obesity and bias training. But the doctor's seniority scared both Yan and the patient into silence, without challenging the tone or content of the lecture. But, she says, the biggest clinical damage has come from doctors themselves, including from an orthopedist she consulted several years ago about hip pain.
When she finally did see someone else for her hip pain, the root cause turned out to be a severe curve in her spine. Nece says health care workers often seem to assume that people with excess weight don't know their bodies, even though it's something she thinks about all the time. She says the orthopedist wasn't alone in dismissing her; she's felt spurned for her weight by others, too — dieticians, mammographers, rheumatologists.
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