satanbadger:
ghamdifirst:
satanbadger:
ghamdifirst:
bigfatscience:
If you are fat and have even been abused or mistreated by a medical professional, know that you are not alone.
Fully 70% of fat people report that they have experienced prejudice or discrimination from a doctor or other health care provider.
This is one of the most dangerous forms of discrimination that fat people experience.
Fear of medical discrimination stops many fat people from seeking medical attention until it is an emergency, which may explain why fat people often fare worse when they contract certain diseases.
Prejudice and lack of training with fat patients causes doctors to offer inadequate medical care to fat patients. For example, fat patients are less likely to receive screening tests for certain cancers, and when they do get cancer, fat patients are routinely prescribed lower doses of chemotherapy than they require, resulting in lower cancer survival rates.
Many doctors even believe that non-emergency medical treatment should be denied to fat people until they lose weight.
Is it any wonder that fat people suffer poor health outcomes?
Was it really a mystery why obese people suffer poor health outcomes??!
Obesity is a risk factor for many heart, lung, liver, joint, and metabolic diseases, etc.
Physicians are not really to blame for that.
They are when they refuse to treat someone did you even read the post
I did. But I still insist that physician negligence and/or ignorance is not the major cause of poorer health outcome in obese people. It may be a factor but there are more important reasons.
but this post isn’t about that? It’s about putting people at an increased risk? You can preach all day about the risk factors of being overweight but if someone comes in with a treatable condition and they’re refused then sorry the doctors are partly to blame for that? Like majorly? Weight isn’t the only fucking factor when it comes to health. You can be a “bigger” person and be healthy just like my skinny ass is so unhealthy it’s disgusting. Even if it’s not treatable and their weight is partly to blame, they still have the right to the healthcare they’re seeking, to get as much help dealing with it as possible. I’m sorry if you feel the need to protect asswipes who refuse to do their jobs??? Who discriminate???
The post was fine until the last sentence when it blamed all poorer health outcomes in obese people on physicians.
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satanbadger:
ghamdifirst:
bigfatscience:
If you are fat and have even been abused or mistreated by a medical professional, know that you are not alone.
Fully 70% of fat people report that they have experienced prejudice or discrimination from a doctor or other health care provider.
This is one of the most dangerous forms of discrimination that fat people experience.
Fear of medical discrimination stops many fat people from seeking medical attention until it is an emergency, which may explain why fat people often fare worse when they contract certain diseases.
Prejudice and lack of training with fat patients causes doctors to offer inadequate medical care to fat patients. For example, fat patients are less likely to receive screening tests for certain cancers, and when they do get cancer, fat patients are routinely prescribed lower doses of chemotherapy than they require, resulting in lower cancer survival rates.
Many doctors even believe that non-emergency medical treatment should be denied to fat people until they lose weight.
Is it any wonder that fat people suffer poor health outcomes?
Was it really a mystery why obese people suffer poor health outcomes??!
Obesity is a risk factor for many heart, lung, liver, joint, and metabolic diseases, etc.
Physicians are not really to blame for that.
They are when they refuse to treat someone did you even read the post
I did. But I still insist that physician negligence and/or ignorance is not the major cause of poorer health outcome in obese people. It may be a factor but there are more important reasons.
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bigfatscience:
If you are fat and have even been abused or mistreated by a medical professional, know that you are not alone.
Fully 70% of fat people report that they have experienced prejudice or discrimination from a doctor or other health care provider.
This is one of the most dangerous forms of discrimination that fat people experience.
Fear of medical discrimination stops many fat people from seeking medical attention until it is an emergency, which may explain why fat people often fare worse when they contract certain diseases.
Prejudice and lack of training with fat patients causes doctors to offer inadequate medical care to fat patients. For example, fat patients are less likely to receive screening tests for certain cancers, and when they do get cancer, fat patients are routinely prescribed lower doses of chemotherapy than they require, resulting in lower cancer survival rates.
Many doctors even believe that non-emergency medical treatment should be denied to fat people until they lose weight.
Is it any wonder that fat people suffer poor health outcomes?
Was it really a mystery why obese people suffer poor health outcomes??!
Obesity is a risk factor for many heart, lung, liver, joint, and metabolic diseases, etc.
Physicians are not really to blame for that.
(via lucifergender)
