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Originally posted by aephi alum
We don't have all the information.
It is a doctor's job to alert his/her patients to any health problems they may be facing. If a patient is obese, the doctor needs to say something.
But the doctor also needs to be careful about how to tell a patient that s/he is overweight and should do something about it. This requires sensitivity to the patient and knowledge of his/her situation.
In this case, it sounds like the doctor had been seeing this patient for some time and had spoken with her about her weight before, and she hadn't done anything about it, so maybe a kick in the @$$ was warranted. At the same time, he could have given her a more tactful kick in the @$$ (does that make sense?).
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I don't think he could have been more tactful about it. He was doing his job. He spoke with this lady about this several times before, and each time she refused to do something about it. At least this way he got it to stick in her mind for a little bit instead of going in one ear and out the other. And honestly, if she really is 5'7" and in the 250lbs. range, then I'm sure that her doctor isn't the only person who told her she needed to lose weight.
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