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My .02 on the whole deal: You know what? If a doctor hurts your feelings, get another doctor. Period. Tell your friends he was offensive-that will hurt his business...but complaining to the medical board about it? Please. He did what he needed to do, especially since he had discussed it before, presumably in a tactful way, and it didn't work!
Some people need only be told to chill out on the ice cream by a physician to get serious about losing weight-thank goodness there are doctors who are willing to talk about it now. I gained alot of weight with my first pregnancy. My doc hardly said a word...I visited her partner a few weeks b/f I delivered so I could meet her in case she had to cover for my doc, and after our intro's, she looked at the chart & said "you don't miss many meals, do you?" You'd think I would have been horrified, but I was so relieved that she said it - it was true, and I needed a physician to tell me to stop the madness. When I had my second child, I switched to her b/c I knew she would be straight with me from beginning to end. She told me in no uncertain terms not to gain an ounce over 25 pounds, and you know what? I didn't - simply because my doctor had told me not to....
Perhaps the best solution in this case, would have been for the doc to view the woman as a non-compliant patient, and simply inform her that she needed to find another physician - docs do it all the time when they have patients w/other diagnoses, like diabetes, etc., who refuse to follow doctor's orders...obesity should be no different. Shame on the state AG for going after this guy, when there are probably alot of other physicians out there getting away with REAL malpractice!
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