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Doctors Have a New Plan for Fat Kids

Maintenance Phase

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What Language Affirms You?

"There is no way to bring this up with somebody that is going to make them not understand what you're actually telling them," she says. "It's like a caricature of the arrogance of doctors saying, oh, well, in every interaction, I have to bring up this patient's BMI even if that person is a child." 'I'm bringing it up in a way that's non-stigmatizing,' one doctor tells her. "'Madening' and documents like this talk to kill me,'" another adds.

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