My issue was countless doctors that immediately blamed my back pain on being overweight, rather than doing tests to discover the watermelon sized ovarian cyst pressing against my spine.
To be fair that was not the most likely option. If I you had other symptoms like minor paralysis then yeah that's bad, but just back pain it's got to look like you are just overweight.
Because everyone goes to the doctor to be told it's the most obvious thing. Just like I was told many times my constant headaches were do to spending too much time on the computer when they were really a symptom of palsy. They're doctors, they should act like things are rarely as simple as they seem.
Theyre doctors. We go to them for a professional opinion based on their extensive medical knowledge so they can determine a vast majority of things that can cause a problem and then eliminate them. If i wanted every problem to be immediately blamed on just looking at me rather than actual knowledge, i could go up to any random person on the street...or the internet as the case may be.
It's fine to address a patient's obesity if it's relevant. A lot of doctors bring it up when it isn't. That's not helpful, and it dissuades people from seeking help. Others go further and refuse to investigate a problem, insisting it's caused by obesity without doing any tests to rule out other causes, which leads to missed diagnoses and causes understandable frustration and anger on the patient's part.
Doctors do it with obesity more so than other "self-induced" health issues (e.g. smoking or drinking) because they can see it. It's an easy thing to go for. That doesn't make it okay.
The issue isn't in the labeling of obesity. I understand how not reading the article could cause one to not understand the issue being discussed. Some health care professional are dismissing health problems such as injury, swelling and pain, because they are assuming they are caused by weight. This means the cause of real health concerns are being over looked. In the end this will make the weight problem worse.
It is true that the person who has obesity has caused it himself but would you point at a drug addict who is in a clinic trying to solve the problem and say "you drug addict"?!! I think they got the idea. If you're not a doctor or a good friend trying to help, then you shouldn't feel the need to point it out
Bruh still disrespectful as fuck. It's like calling people with autism "the autistic." Can't reduce someone to a problem they have it's rude af.
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well not really, pretty much every single person who has obesity has caused it themselves, people with autism do not choose to have autism
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Not all people have caused it themselves though. There are conditions out there that can make it hard to lose weight or can make you over weight. But the people who have brought it on themselves need to do something about it
Regardless of who caused it it's still disrespectful to define someone by a physical problem they have. I might have serious scars because I was in a car accident where I wasn't wearing a seatbelt, but that doesn't give you a license to call me "the deformed"
No one will normally define you as "obese", you fucking retards. But if you're a medical professional and that's the main problem, then yea, it's gonna become your defining characteristic. If you don't wanna be called obese, don't be a pig.
"pretty much every single person who has obesity has caused it themselves" - well, absolutely not. Most twin studies conclude a 60-70% genetic dispostion for obesity. Most studies in total conclude 50% or more. Most eating disorders also have a very strong psychological component as well. So calling obese people fat will most likely cause them to eat more. Super helpful, innit?
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cool, pretty sure we already got that out of the way
"pretty much every single person who has obesity has caused it themselves" - Science agrees on at least 50% genetics. So you either have super bad sources or just pulled that out of your derrière.
Also, deformed is a medical term. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/deformation. Good luck getting away with calling people "the deformed." Oh? You don't think that's okay? Good. Just fucking admit you're discriminating against fat people and move on with your life.
Doctors do it with obesity more so than other "self-induced" health issues (e.g. smoking or drinking) because they can see it. It's an easy thing to go for. That doesn't make it okay.
Obese is.