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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote in [personal profile] pegkerr 2005-08-24 04:43 pm (UTC)

Context matters. I have a friend whose doctor insisted on giving her a "you should lose weight" speech and ignored the reason she was in his office: a broken ankle.

It's remotely possible a thinner woman wouldn't have fallen, but the doctor didn't want to treat the broken bone because he was fixated on her weight.

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