Doctors telling people they're fat

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"I told a fat woman she was obese," Bennett says. "I tried to get her attention. I told her, 'You need to get on a program, join a group of like-minded people and peel off the weight that is going to kill you.' "

My doctor has been very stern with me about losing weight to the point that I was in tears. But he (and she, I have two general docs) would NEVER use unkind words like this.

Instead of using the word "fat", they'd use "overweight" or "obesely overweight"

Instead of saying "You need to get on a program, join a group of like-minded people and peel off the weight that is going to kill you", they'd say "You need to look into different weight programs such as ABC, XYZ, DEF, etc. It's very helpful to get involved with people going through the same problems you are. Losing the weight could prevent -insert diseases and illnesses- which could have fatal results."

I've been to a few different doctors and this is something like what they would say. Criticism and help is different than constructive criticism and help...... obviously the constructive is going to help motivate someone alot more than insulting them even more than they already get in their life.

BTW... Beta Rose... could you show me where in the article it said that she's trying to get money?