Dr. Bennett on MSNBC’s Countdown
“I think it is about 70 percent of adult practitioners will write in your chart morbidly obese and not mention it to you, because, if they do, their 15 minutes expands to 20 or 30, they have got you unhappy and they may get a complaint, as I have had. Well, that’s a brave new world.

I mean, if a doctor can’t tell you the truth and expect to be defended in his right to do that, you can always change doctors. It’s not like I hold a gun to people’s heads and make them come see me.

They need to get value when they come to see me, in my view.

I have a lot of knowledge. I have spent 40 years at this. I have a prepared spiel that incorporates all these horrible facts. And I tell them, look, this is going to be horrible. This is what’s going to happen, OK? The future is clear. If I can get to you believe, we choose a different future and you get to walk through the tulips with somebody that you love for a lot further in this life.

Those are the choices. It’s that important. If I can’t do it, what do I do? Talk about the weather? . . .

. . . If I have it my way, and if the patients “” there’s more than 100 patients that have signed a petition to the governor that he should fire our attorney general. The attorney general could have shut this off at any point in time.

There’s no crime here. I have broken no law. You cannot say that I have done anything offensive in the greater scheme of things. Certainly, I’m not an addict. I’m not an alcoholic. They’ve tried to make me admit that I’m a disruptive physician. Not true. Not happening. Thanks.”