Medscape Roundtable

Good points, and all my favorite bloggers. Between work and lifting weights I had a BMI of 26 when a doctor called me morbidly obese, disgusting, and told me I was going to die unless I immediately lost weight and reached a BMI of 20. Today I have a BMI of 22.5 and am still told I need to loose weight. In both of these instances the doctor’s involved never bothered to physically look at me or ask about my activity levels. In the first instance I got up looked down at my belt buckle and asked “where”? His response was, looking up for the first time, to tap on the file and say “The numbers don’t lie.”

A healthy weight is a range and is dependent on a persons frame and pass physical activity. I am always concerned about the rail thin doctor who talks about self discipline and control when discussing weight. They seem to be trying to say “If you were as smart as I am you would be this thin.”

A heavy doctor is fighting the same battles all of us have in finding time. Time to exercise and time to eat a healthy diet. They also deal with the simple fact that not all of us are thin, some of us just naturally gain weight. No excuse for excessive weight, but we tend to be heavy.

Weight is the new PC issue. Smoking is bad, we all know it, how can you smoke? This is being replace with weight is bad, we all know it, how can you be so large? I do not want to pay for your excessive medical bills due to your weight, loose it!

Doctors best example would be in accepting people the way they are and positively reinforcing good eating and exercise choices.

Steve Lucas

how much longer will the doctors give the
drug amiodarone as a heart drug when it kills
over 40 percent of the peop;e anyway.
Ahalo Some doctor please give me an answer
how to get it from the system so my neuritis will
goo away.

Overweight doctors get a whole lot less respect from colleagues and patients.