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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the one who brought up fat shaming and I am in no way promoting fat acceptance.  OP's DD is losing weight.  I'm not even sure that anything inappropriate happened at the hospital.  I am referring to the folks who are attacking OP for her weight.  And as someone who is close to several people who have struggled with life-threatening anorexia I am deeply offended by the pro-ana comparison.  Saying that someone should not be attacked for their weight (and I would say the same thing about someone with anorexia -- you shouldn't try to shame such a person either) is not the same thing as romanticizing a serious medical condition.[/quote]

In healthcare we don't care about shame or what it looks like on the outside. We just care about what the vessels look like under the microscope, and the bloodwork, and the wound healing and so on. 
There is a disconnect between society and medicine. Society cares about looking good in a swim suit, we care about living longer through better health. [/quote]

I am the PP you are responding to and I have fired doctors who think like you do, with glee.  I am not my cells under a microscope.  And I don't give a rat's ass what I look like in a bathing suit (nice jumping to conclusions about people).  But I do care about a lot of other things that I want my doctors to recognize.  I have personal habits that are vitally important to me -- running and eating a vegetarian diet -- and I want doctors who will recognize that I need to continue these things when the give me advice.  I have feelings, and if a doctor makes me afraid or sad (both have happened) I cannot communicate with that doctor and therefore I can't receive good medical care.  I could go on and on but I know that if a doctor can't recognize that I am a different person than the one sitting next to me in the waiting room, thats a shitty doctor.

And you are wrong about other "in healthcare."  I've had cancer, I have several chronic medical conditions, and I have a lot of doctors.  None of them have this ridiculous attitude.  or at least the ones who did, i fired.[/quote]

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