Jeremy Brown: “It has taken me a while to pluck up the courage to speak frankly with obese patients about this problem. For 15 years I have broached virtually every delicate subject “” from sexual histories to the cough that is really cancer “” in the noisy, impersonal setting of a busy ER. It is expected of me. It is my job.
So why has it been so hard to talk about this? With an epidemic of obesity in the United States, why are so many doctors skittish about discussing obesity with its sufferers?
The truth is, I don’t know.”
