Tuesday, January 29th, 2008...10:58 am
Fat Patients Receive Expert Attention
Physicians Do Bang-Up Job Diagnosing Patients’ Obesity, says Washington Post.
Article highlights:
- Advanced training allows doctors to diagnose fat people’s real problem the moment they walk through the door.
- Skilled medical practitioners may also be able detect a wide range of other failings, including laziness and stupidity, at a glance.
- Treatments of fat patients are often so successful, the patient never sees a doctor again.
Steps To Take:
- If you are a fat person, be sure to choose a physician who is aware of your size and its dire implications about you as a person. If your doctor fails to comment on your weight within five minutes of arriving, he may have poor eyesight. If he offers to treat the problem you came in with instead of telling you to stop eating doughnuts, he may not be a real doctor.
- If you are a thin person, be aware that when you go to a doctor, you may be forced to suffer through an actual examination and then be subjected to a course of treatment which can include prescription drugs and even—in extreme cases—surgery. Unlike a fat person, your problems are complex and do not have an easy solution.
9 Comments
January 29th, 2008 at 11:28 am
[…] that the Fatosphere has been getting in the media is this article by the Washington Post. As THIN so succinctly points out, it turns out doctors are excellent at telling when their patients are fat, […]
January 29th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
These experts point to a 2000 study of 11,425 women, which found heavy women less likely to obtain cancer screenings such as Pap smears and mammograms even though they’re at higher risk of dying from cervical cancer and breast cancer. Newer research has produced similar findings: A 2006 study of 498 women, published in the International Journal of Obesity, found that obese women delayed cancer screenings more than other women.
Hmmmm…. perhaps big gals have a higher death rate from these cancers BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT TO GO TO THE DOCTOR IN THE FIRST PLACE. Maybe, just maybe, it’s because delaying care can have disastrous consequences.
Or, maybe it’s just easier to say it’s because we are fat.
January 29th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I think the solution here is simple. Fat people should be forbidden to go to the doctor. Then the poor, beleaguered doctors won’t have to waste time trying to see past all that fatty fat fat and figure out what’s actually wrong with their patients. Also, if we didn’t enable people to be fat by allowing them access to (condescending, often inadequate) health care, maybe they would stop being fat at the rest of the world. Not only that, then they could die potato-related deaths even quicker, and stop costing my health insurance company money, because I am 100% sure that my insurance company will immediately pass all those sweet, sweet savings on to me. It’s just logic, people.
January 29th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Fat people should be forbidden to go to the doctor
The UK is way ahead of you.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
I really wish my doctor just had a GIANT stamp that said fat on it. So that all I had to do is stand in the waiting room, they would peek out the door and then stamp it onto my chart, so I don’t have to pay copay.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
HeatherRadish, those British doctors have it right. Fat people should definitely not get treatment because they’re fat, just as whores shouldn’t get “social” abortions because they’re whores. And old people? They should have decided to be young.
Then again, they’re British, and as an American, I am suspicious of their actions, and therefore now confused. Thin Institute, what should I think?
January 29th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Treatments of fat patients are often so successful, the patient never sees a doctor again.
If you are a thin person, be aware that when you go to a doctor, you may be forced to suffer through an actual examination and then be subjected to a course of treatment which can include prescription drugs and even—in extreme cases—surgery. Unlike a fat person, your problems are complex and do not have an easy solution.
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February 2nd, 2008 at 4:27 am
This is pure gold.
February 2nd, 2008 at 4:50 am
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