As if doctors don’t have enough to worry about…
Previously posted on August 24 at: http://spaces.msn.com/members/evandodds/Blog/cns!1phaOgcvNsBxzvBN9Zpx1vbQ!167.entry
A doctor in New Hampshire got in trouble for counseling one of his patients that she was overweight.
Here’s the excerpt from the article:
Dr. Terry Bennett says he tells obese patients their weight is bad for their health and their love lives, but the lecture drove one patient to complain to the state.
“I told a fat woman she was obese,” Bennett says. “I tried to get her attention. I told her, ‘You need to get on a program, join a group of like-minded people and peel off the weight that is going to kill you.’”
Wow. There’s not a lot of detail in the article, but it seems like this is pretty much the sort of advice a doctor SHOULD give!
Now, if the woman was not actually obese, it might be out of line and counterproductive. Or if the doctor was seeing her for something totally unrelated to general-health, maybe it seemed a bit strange to the patient… but in my opinion, still not out of line; all good doctors are concerned about overall health in addition to any specialty they practice.
