Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient'

This physician should be commended for telling the woman the truth. Can
anyone please tell me what this doctor said that wasn't 100% correct?



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...6/ixworld.html

Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient'



Efforts to tackle soaring obesity rates in America have taken a knock after
a doctor was censured for telling a patient she was fat.



Dr Terry Bennett, of New Hampshire, informed the woman that she was
overweight and that it was harming her health.

Her husband was also obese, he said, and would probably die before her, and
given her weight she would have problems finding another man.

the good Doctor wrote:
This physician should be commended for telling the woman the truth. Can
anyone please tell me what this doctor said that wasn't 100% correct?



Telling the patient she was fat doesn't look to be the problem here.

The problem is what he said next.

" Her husband was also obese, he said, and would probably die before
her, and given her weight she would have ***problems finding another
man***."

The doctor isn't in MUCH trouble. Just a censure.

In article .com,
" wrote:

the good Doctor wrote:
This physician should be commended for telling the woman the truth. Can
anyone please tell me what this doctor said that wasn't 100% correct?



Telling the patient she was fat doesn't look to be the problem here.

The problem is what he said next.

" Her husband was also obese, he said, and would probably die before
her, and given her weight she would have ***problems finding another
man***."

The doctor isn't in MUCH trouble. Just a censure.

Statistaclly, isn't the doctor correct? Widows predominate.


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In article , Carol Frilegh
wrote:

In article .com,
" wrote:

the good Doctor wrote:
This physician should be commended for telling the woman the truth. Can
anyone please tell me what this doctor said that wasn't 100% correct?



Telling the patient she was fat doesn't look to be the problem here.

The problem is what he said next.

" Her husband was also obese, he said, and would probably die before
her, and given her weight she would have ***problems finding another
man***."

The doctor isn't in MUCH trouble. Just a censure.

Statistaclly, isn't the doctor correct? Widows predominate.

Apologies for failing to excise other groups in original post.


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Diva
*****
The Best Man For The Job Is A Woman

"the good Doctor" wrote in message
...
This physician should be commended for telling the woman the truth. Can
anyone please tell me what this doctor said that wasn't 100% correct?

A doctor's job is to help his patients, not tell the truth.





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...6/ixworld.html

Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient'



Efforts to tackle soaring obesity rates in America have taken a knock
after
a doctor was censured for telling a patient she was fat.



Dr Terry Bennett, of New Hampshire, informed the woman that she was
overweight and that it was harming her health.

Her husband was also obese, he said, and would probably die before her,
and
given her weight she would have problems finding another man.

hah! SARCASM ok honey, I will just give you more pills to combat your
problem and not tell you the truth about it/SARCASM

" wrote:

Telling the patient she was fat doesn't look to be the problem here.

The problem is what he said next.

" Her husband was also obese, he said, and would probably die before
her, and given her weight she would have ***problems finding another
man***."

Ya, I think that might be the part the really ticked her off. It's
not really a doctor's place to tell someone they're going to be widowed
and unboinkable because of their weight.

For what it's worth, though, I do have some sympathy for the doctor
as well. He might have not chosen the right words, but at least he did
try. I've been fat for a very long time. In the past 20 years, I've
only had one doctor tell me that I needed to lose weight, and oddly he
did it when I was only about 40 pounds overweight at the time, not where
I eventually ended up at. I'd like to think that the rest of the
doctors that have seen me have been giving me enough credit to know that
I'm fat and ought to do something about it. But I have a sinking
feeling that they've had their heads bitten off in the past too many
times when they've said things to patients that the patients just didn't
want to hear. I have a strong suspicion that there alot of obese people
out there who are convinced they are simply a little "heavy", but it's
not a major problem.

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" wrote:

Telling the patient she was fat doesn't look to be the problem here.

The problem is what he said next.

" Her husband was also obese, he said, and would probably die before
her, and given her weight she would have ***problems finding another
man***."

Ya, I think that might be the part the really ticked her off. It's
not really a doctor's place to tell someone they're going to be widowed
and unboinkable because of their weight.

LOL - I love your way with words Annie!
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the volleyballchick

"Nunya B." wrote:
"Annie Benson Lennaman" wrote in
message . ..


" wrote:

Telling the patient she was fat doesn't look to be the problem here.

The problem is what he said next.

" Her husband was also obese, he said, and would probably die before
her, and given her weight she would have ***problems finding another
man***."

Ya, I think that might be the part the really ticked her off. It's
not really a doctor's place to tell someone they're going to be widowed
and unboinkable because of their weight.

LOL - I love your way with words Annie!

I don't. Fat people get "boinked" -- as do ugly people, pretty people,
nice people, mean people, rich people, poor people, cheap people,
generous people and so on. Anyone can get "boinked" if she so chooses.

It's a fallacy to say fat makes a /woman/ "unboinkable." (How romantic
a choice of words, by the way!)

Maybe the patient was upset that the doctor decreed her husband would
die before she did, huh? But that's just too caring of a possibility
for the cynics, isn't it? It's based on another bullsh*t fallacy
anyway -- "fat causes death." In actuality, being sedentary, not fat,
is what is hazardous to one's health. There /are/ unhealthy, sedentary
thin people.

There are also "unboinkable" thin people.

Brynhildr wrote in message
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It's based on another bullsh*t fallacy
anyway -- "fat causes death." In actuality, being sedentary, not
fat,
is what is hazardous to one's health.

"Both increased adiposity and reduced physical activity are strong and
independent predictors of death.A higher level of physical activity
does not appear to negate the risk associated with adiposity."
-- Hu FB, Willett WC, Li T, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA, Manson JE.
Adiposity as compared with physical activity in predicting mortality
among women.
N Engl J Med. 2004 Dec 23;351(26):2694-703.