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073: Are Fat People “Heart Attacks Waiting To Happen”?
Fierce Fatty Podcast
The Importance of Stigma in Health
Fat people go to the doctor less because we know what we're going to be told. Fat people are sent away with a prescription of weight loss when they're actually dying. "Any type of oppression and stigma is really bad for the physical and mental health of that population" 'If you don't want to hear these stories, then skip ahead 10 minutes,' she says. "'You can be fat and sick' It took me a year to lose it," he writes about how doctors blamed everything on his weight." So if I had been taken seriously a year ago, I might not have lost them.' He goes on to share some stories from family members who died as a result of poor care
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