It is not the fact that he was blunt with her, but elaborate in such a way was not called for and rude.

This doctor should have some bedside manner and say what the medical affects are of obesity not comment that she won’t be attractive…

http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2005/10/youre-so-obese-only-black-men-will.html

Let’s get a grip, here folks. Dr. Terry Bennett’s comments, in lilly-white New Hampshire, are not the same as a doctor telling a skinny black woman, “you’re so skinny only white boys will like you,” and if you can’t see that, or comprehend why it’s different in a context like this, you may be cursed with another physical ailment beyond the Good Doctor’s bailiwick: Myopia.

Having dated leggy blondes to short brunettes and women of many body compositions between 4′10″ to 6′2″ and in between, I appreciate all sorts of women. But apparently some white professionals in the “Live Free or Die” state don’t appreciate black men appreciating white women in that way because he used it as a scare tactic. Well that’s pretty scary to me, folks, so I’m gonna file a complaint with the Seacoast Branch of the NAACP later today. Peace.

PS: His speech is not entirely protected by the First Amendment, as mine was and is in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. He relinquished a degree of his First Amendment Rights by agreeing to be subject to a regulatory board — and he may even be governed by commercial, rather than general, Free Speech doctrines. I, on the other hand, was exercising a Fundamental right as a free negro (or caucasian) citizen to seek redress for a man who faced three (3) drawn guns, arrest and a body cavity search from undercover police who rousted him and eventually charged him with “loitering,” which he beat. See my 16 Oct. blawg, “Open Complaint to NAACP Legal Defense Fund,” which still has not been answered substantively.

This is nothing of the kind; it is merely your conjecture and assumptions, shot through with your preconceptions and biases. Your “argument is nothing more than an assertion.

You have offered no proof whatsoever that the statement was made–if in fact it was made–with any invidious prejudice.

Or is that just your interpretation? And what exactly is wrong with being attractive to black men? Who exactly is being racist here, the doctor, the patient, or both (or neither)? If the doctor did say this, was he simply making an observation, neutrally as it were, or did he think his patient had racist inclinations, and would react constructively to this statement? I don’t know, so how do you know? Funny that this comment comes to light so late after the story hits the press; it looks like someone–the patient maybe, or the NH board, maybe–is feeling unexpected heat and is trying to re-spin the story. I am inclined not to believe it.

And what is this brand of political correctness that makes observations about interracial relationships somehow a forbidden subject? People can talk abouth these things without being tarred as racist. Kindly keep your PC thought policing to yourself.

Article: State investigates doctor accused of racial remark to obese woman

ROCHESTER —The Board of Medicine is not investigating Dr. Terry Bennett solely because he told a female patient that she was obese and faced a dismal life if she didn’t change, but because of an alleged racial comment the woman said he made to her during the visit, according to documents released Tuesday.

The woman — dubbed “Patient A” by the state and referred to as Helena (Susan) P. in documents Bennett previously provided to Foster’s — alleges that on June 28, 2004, Bennett told her: “You need to lose weight. Let’s fact it if your husband were to die tomorrow who would want you. Well, men might want you but not the types that you want to want you. Might even be a black guy.”

Senior Assistant Attorney General Richard Head confirmed the complaint “very specifically is not about a patient who is only concerned about being told she is obese. … Whether or not Dr. Bennett agrees that that was what was said, that was the complaint that was sent to the board and that was what triggered the request for the investigation.”

In making public that a hearing will be held Dec. 7 at 1:30 p.m. in Concord, the state also disclosed the contents of an earlier complaint against Bennett in 2001 which he has said was found to be “without merit” and made by a “demented” patient.

The documents paraphrased what Bennett, 67, allegedly told the patient, dubbed “Patient S,” who was suffering from the effects of brain surgery. “(Bennett) spoke to Patient S in an unprofessional manner suggesting that she purchase a pistol with which to commit suicide as a means of putting an end to her life,” according to the state’s documents.

This morning Bennett said he normally tells his female obese patients that in addition to them facing the prospect of dying before their husbands he also tells them he has read polls that indicate black men prefer being with overweight women. But Bennett says he never said exactly what the complaint alleges.

“That sentence was never raised from my lips,” Bennett said. “I didn’t say, ‘Honey, the only person that’s going to like you is a black guy.” He said the first time he learned that the state was investigating the racial comment was by reading it on a TV station’s website Tuesday night.

In letters Bennett sent to Attorney General Kelly Ayotte on June 17, among 67 points Bennett laid out refuting the state’s claims he said that, according to news outlets, black men are the only group of people “not completely negative about obese women.” He also writes that “facts are just facts, and are NOT inherently ‘racist.’ ”

Bennett also denied having ever told any of his patients to kill themselves. He said the state was going on fourth-degree hearsay.”

Here ya’ll go – no mind reading necessary – the good doc quite nicely condemns himself.