This post makes me think of the House episode "Heavy".
Yeah, and what made me upset was that the episode was actually very realistic as far as the level of care she got from the team. What's worse is that the ep focused on how much Chase was anti-fat, but you didn't see anyone, even House, saying, "what if we assume that she isn't a fat slob for a moment" early on in the diagnostic. Plus, the little girl's illness was rather easy to diagnose once someone saw beyond the fat.
There are so many kids like that out there, who's health problems are causing weight problems, but they get blamed for the reverse.
That and I wish you could find a good doctor who treats the whole person and not just the empirical.
I wish I could, too. A lot of us bigger folks have this problem of not finding decent health care providers - that is, when we can actually get access to healthcare. I mean, it's been a struggle for me just to keep insurance and be able to go to any doctor at all!
I'm just hoping that as science progresses, some of the prejudices concerning obesity will start to lessen or go way when some of the common "myths" about it get disproven in the laboratory.
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Yeah, and what made me upset was that the episode was actually very realistic as far as the level of care she got from the team. What's worse is that the ep focused on how much Chase was anti-fat, but you didn't see anyone, even House, saying, "what if we assume that she isn't a fat slob for a moment" early on in the diagnostic. Plus, the little girl's illness was rather easy to diagnose once someone saw beyond the fat.
There are so many kids like that out there, who's health problems are causing weight problems, but they get blamed for the reverse.
That and I wish you could find a good doctor who treats the whole person and not just the empirical.
I wish I could, too. A lot of us bigger folks have this problem of not finding decent health care providers - that is, when we can actually get access to healthcare. I mean, it's been a struggle for me just to keep insurance and be able to go to any doctor at all!
I'm just hoping that as science progresses, some of the prejudices concerning obesity will start to lessen or go way when some of the common "myths" about it get disproven in the laboratory.