Comments on: Fat doctors under fire http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/fat-doctors-under-fire.html medical blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:35:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/fat-doctors-under-fire.html/comment-page-1#comment-67666 Anonymous Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:00:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/fat-doctors-under-fire.html#comment-67666 This article is asinine. Some of the best and most caring doctors I've ever had were overweight. We are a society that is all becoming metally ill, with our obsession with perfection. <br/><br/>Patients demanding their Drs. be perfect, and Drs. demanding their patients be totally compliant or they don't want to see them again. This article is asinine. Some of the best and most caring doctors I’ve ever had were overweight. We are a society that is all becoming metally ill, with our obsession with perfection.

Patients demanding their Drs. be perfect, and Drs. demanding their patients be totally compliant or they don’t want to see them again.

]]> By: Gasman http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/fat-doctors-under-fire.html/comment-page-1#comment-67594 Gasman Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:52:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/fat-doctors-under-fire.html#comment-67594 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). 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).

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