A daughter blames a doctor for indirectly causing her mother’s death from a blood clot:

A few days before she died, she fell down in a parking lot. Tripped, I guess. The coroner said that may have been what dislodged the blood clot which eventually killed her. Of course, if she’d been getting decent medical care, she might have gotten proper treatment for all this long before, and maybe she’d still be alive today.

But, you know, that doctor had told her not to come back until she’d lost 50 pounds, and she trusted him. She took him to heart. He was a doctor, after all.

I hope he’s proud of himself. His words, over 20 years ago, helped kill my mother.

(via Fat Doctor)