
Episode 1481 - Treating patients with obesity - level 1: check your bias
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Level One of Treating Obesity
As health care workers, obesity is our job to treat. So level one in treating obesity and being successful as a clinician treating patients with obesity is to check our bias. There is significant weight bias in health care. That could be interpreted as fatphobia, weight bias. What does that mean? I know that you all know what I'm talking about without even having to articulate it. Fatphobia implies that people with obesity are less adherent, less motivated, lazy,. stupid, less deserving of empathy, sloppy, mean.
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