When the Doctor Is Overweight - NYTimes.com

This is a fascinating article. I am very interested in hearing from you regarding your thoughts on this topic. Please leave a comment to this blog -- it should make for a very interesting discussion. I know that as a physician, I spend all day speaking to patients about their weight, their level of physical activity, their diet, their smoking and their medical compliance. There are definitely days that I feel hypocritical if I know that recently I have not been exercising or eating well or taking my medicines as prescribed. When I feel this, it helps me relate to my patients and understand just how hard the things I am recommending can be for some of them. It also motivates me to be a better patient myself and pushes me to take better care of myself. How about you?http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/when-the-doctor-is-overweight/?smid=tw-nytimeshealth&seid=auto When the Doctor Is Overweight By JAN HOFFMAN Cheryl Graham Dr. George Fielding, a pioneer of weight loss surgery in Australia, remembers how patients treated him in the late 1990s, when his weight reached 330 pounds on his six-foot frame. He would meet new patients, dressed in Armani suits and feeling on top of the world, and then be abruptly upended. "They'd say, 'Mate! You're sitting there telling me I need it? You need to have your surgery!' " Despite being an internationally recognized expert on lap band and gastric bypass surgeries,...
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