This is just . . . weird

[pegkerr]

Doctor in trouble for calling woman obese.

The story doesn't say exactly how he phrased what he said to her. I gotta think there is more to the story here.

It makes me think of that term Berke Breathed coined: "Offensensitivity."

Comments

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Hear hear. I fired one doctor over her obsession on my weight, as much as telling me that all of my chronic health issues were certainly caused by my weight. Um, but what about the issues that have been there since I was a small (non-obese) child?

And if a doctor told me that my love life would improve if I lost weight, I would laugh in his/her face. Before telling him/her to do something anatomically impossible and removing myself from his/her office, on my way to file a complaint.