Doctors telling people they're fat

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Originally posted by KSigkid
Also better than ending up on an operating room/catherization room table after having a heart attack.

That's if the person is "unhealthy". (quotations because I understand that being overweight is unhealthy, I mean it in a way as having clogged arteries, etc.) Not every overweight person has these things wrong. I'm obese, have tried everything to lose it, but I can't because of my insulin level. Besides that everything else is perfect. (just had a FULL bloodwork physical last October so yes it's recent) You can't always assume that overweight people are very unhealthy.

Come to remember, the woman doctor I went to wasn't exactly nice about the way she told me stuff. She kept telling me that my knee problem was no excuse to not work out (at 15 I was told not to do anything athletic without a knee brace, which I no longer have... I've had knee probs since I was born, not due to being overweight) She wasn't understanding the pain I get in when trying to work out without it. I needed the stern-ness, and she did put me on a diet to lower my insulin which started to work, but she didn't have to be so stern about my knee when she doesn't know the pain I go through every time I work out. (I just walk it off now, I guess feeling like your knee cap is gona bust outa place for the rest of the day and sometimes week isn't so bad of a feeling)

But I didn't write a letter to the board or even say anything to her. I just stopped goin to her and went to the other doc.