[cloudier]

I agree that the headline is sensationalised and exaggerated, and that despite the headline the article itself is actually interesting and changed my mind about a couple of things. I think it describes a fat person’s perspective on and experience with the medical profession well.

[ggm]

Yes. I spent a lot of time wondering how you could say to a patient as a doctor "my treatment options are now limited by your weight" and it not be confronting or hard.

eg an ultrasound technician fighting belly fat, trying to image something underlying, and the unavoidable issues around "if you had less this diagnostic would be simpler"

The woman with gall bladder issues got really short shrift in the article. She wasn't properly diagnosed.