Fat doctors under fire

The abdomen shown can hardly be the one described in the article; spare tire, double chin, fat fingers even. Sure health care providers can be overweight, but often it is just patient’s looking for excuses to avoid accepting responsibility for their own condition that they point out the doctor’s failing. The BMI of 40 patient needs to heed the advice of the doc whether he is BMI 28 (mildly overweight) or BMI 23 (nicely endomorphic).