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25 Aug 2005 10:23:56 PM |
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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.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/26/wfat26.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/26/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.
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| User: "Roger" |
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26 Aug 2005 06:16:25 AM |
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"the good Doctor" <apartment3l57@aol.com> wrote in message
news:_pmdnZ2dnZ1x_uemnZ2dnQMWk96dnZ2dRVn-zp2dnZ0@giganews.com...
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.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/26/wfat26.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/26/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.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient' |
29 Aug 2005 11:18:10 AM |
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Roger wrote:
"the good Doctor" <apartment3l57@aol.com> wrote in message
news:_pmdnZ2dnZ1x_uemnZ2dnQMWk96dnZ2dRVn-zp2dnZ0@giganews.com...
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.
And how is he helping them by not telling the truth?
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| User: "Roger" |
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| Title: Re: Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient' |
29 Aug 2005 05:32:22 PM |
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<niallkeane@excite.com> wrote in message
news:1125332290.683077.169810@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Roger wrote:
"the good Doctor" <apartment3l57@aol.com> wrote in message
news:_pmdnZ2dnZ1x_uemnZ2dnQMWk96dnZ2dRVn-zp2dnZ0@giganews.com...
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.
And how is he helping them by not telling the truth?
Think. I'm sure you'll come up with something.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient' |
26 Aug 2005 12:27:46 PM |
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hah! <SARCASM> ok honey, I will just give you more pills to combat your
problem and not tell you the truth about it</SARCASM>
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| User: "Lady Veteran" |
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| Title: Re: Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient' |
30 Sep 2005 11:35:51 AM |
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:23:56 -0400, 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?
His comments about her romantic life are out of bounds. Correct
information has nothing to do with the issue.
He could tell that if she doesn't lose weight she will die because of
EXISTING health problems.
Why is it that when a fat person has high blood pressure it is
because they are fat, yet a thin person's is always caused by
something else.
If this doctor cannot explore ALL reasons for a health problem he has
no business being a doctor.
LV
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient' |
25 Aug 2005 10:34:54 PM |
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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.
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| User: "Annie Benson Lennaman" |
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| Title: Re: Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient' |
26 Aug 2005 01:27:10 PM |
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"paulmd@efn.org" 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.
--
Annie
As of 8-26-05: 258/213.5/140 Standing at 5 foot 4.
No Change from 8-19-05.
44.5 pounds lost. 73.5 left to go. Started February/07/05
Come visit my weight-loss web site, Annie Takes Off.
http://webpages.charter.net/lenny13/DietFrontPage.html
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| User: "Carol Frilegh" |
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| Title: Re: Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient' |
26 Aug 2005 05:51:08 AM |
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In article <1125027294.482716.320080@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
<"paulmd@efn.org"> 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.
--
Diva
*****
The Best Man For The Job Is A Woman
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| User: "Society" |
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| Title: Re: Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient' |
27 Aug 2005 12:05:01 AM |
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"Carol Frilegh" <cma@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:260820050651089105%cma@sympatico.ca...
Statistaclly, isn't the doctor correct?
Yes, he is correct.
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The best MAN for the job is a man.
(Duh.) Number 89,320,943 on the
list of things feminists "just don't get"
(a little feminist lingo there).
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Doctor in trouble for 'insulting fat patient' |
26 Aug 2005 10:58:25 PM |
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Carol Frilegh wrote:
In article <1125027294.482716.320080@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
<"paulmd@efn.org"> 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.
So she gets the choice of being widowed and slim or being widowed and
being fat. Great incentive. Maybe she'll choose to add a few more stone
in hopes of dying first.
The doctor is seriously diplomatically challenged.
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