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It really isn't.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0803-x

> Evidence suggests that physicians spend less time in appointments and provide less education about health to patients with obesity compared with thinner patients, and patients who report having experienced weight bias in the healthcare setting have poor treatment outcomes and might be more likely to avoid future care. Obesity also adversely impacts age-appropriate cancer screening, which can lead to delays in breast, gynecological, and colorectal cancer detection.

> Negative influences on engagement with primary care were evaluated and ten themes were identified: contemptuous, patronizing, and disrespectful treatment, lack of training, ambivalence, attribution of all health issues to excess weight, assumptions about weight gain, barriers to health care utilization, expectation of differential health care treatment, low trust and poor communication, avoidance or delay of health services, and seeking medical advice from multiple HCPs.