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[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago

I've had almost exclusively military doctors for nearly two decades, and I can tell you they aren't trying to respect your feelings (not that they're dicks). If your tests come back with high cholesterol, they aren't jumping to Lipitor or some shit, they'll refer you to a nutritionist and tell you to exercise more. They have no problems telling you that your health troubles come from that weight crushing your organs and joints.

And that's as a person in the military, who has to maintain a certain level if fitness to keep my job.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Or a mentally troubled patient. Or a black patient. Or a woman.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 5 points 5 days ago

Yeah. I've a friend who kept getting dismissed by the doctors when they came with worries about their heart, because they were diagnosed with generalised anxiety. Apparently if you're living with anxiety you're also immune to heart problems!

Doesn't help that someone close to them died because of late medical intervention, which only happened because the person's partner insisted that they fake a fainting episode as the medical system had repeatedly dismissed them when previously asking for help with their problem. Everything was fine and dandy until they didn't pass out, then oops, too late to treat the cancer, have a nice rest of your life.

Can't even blame individual doctors though, I think it has a lot to do with understaffing and overworking. The people who matter aren't cared for and thus can't properly care for the people they are obliged to care for. It all serves the bottom line of the elite because they can pocket more money.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Also if they're dentists (suddenly teeth become "bones to smile with").

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're going to need a root canal, not because its the best procedure for the job, but because its more expensive.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

I had a dentist give me an unnecessary root canal when a filling broke and they didn't even do it right. I'm still pretty salty about it. I'll always get a second opinion moving forward.

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I did notice my dentist's office is decorated with various posters and such that say "smile" and none of them say "chew"

[–] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

quality rage bait 👏👏👏

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not rage baiting, its a shitpost, in the community for shitposts.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

You sound distressed, you should lose some weight.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 24 points 6 days ago

shoutout to my current PCP for actually listening to my symptoms and (most importantly) when they started/worsened and treating them and/or the cause while also reminding me I still need to keep working on my weight

gonna miss her when I move towns :[

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 days ago (3 children)

What part of the Hippocratic Oath does this refer to? If anything, the Oath specifies "us[ing] those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment".

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I heard Dr Mike saying the other day that as a doctor he admits prescription drugs suck. End of the day, they have serious risks vs benefit. But the one thing known to give you the benefit of drugs without the risk is lowering your weight. Like across the board it improves so many things. I don't envy doctors who know what the answer is but are told they're assholes for trying to help

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm consistently 20-30 kilo above what was considered ideal weight for my height. It took 10 different visits to 10 different doctors to find my life-altering disease that was caused by basically a slow acting infection. 9 of them attributed my very real and severe symptoms to "well, what do you want from me, you're a fatty fat fat and until you fix this you will be bad and miserable and actually deserve it, and did I mentioned you're fat?". All of them were as smug as you are right now, all of them presumably thought that they're helping.
Now that that shit is fixed, I'm still the same weight, but weirdly enough, no symptoms and I am feeling good. Almost like my body type has nothing to do with anything.
And that's what the meme is referring to.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

More like as soon as they leave medical school in my experience.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (6 children)

What harm is the doctor doing to fat people in your opinion?

[–] albert180@piefed.social 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People love to claim that doctors don't take fat patients seriously and complain when they tell them to loose weight.

In the Fediverse there are also some Nutjobs who will claim that being morbidly obese isn't unhealthy and that those doctors just don't have a clue if they think it is unhealthy

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

#loose

Fat people can lose weight. Loose people... are more fun I presume.

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[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Isn't it well-known that doctors frequently dismiss health concerns with "have you tried losing weight?"

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

When you look at how strongly obesity correlates with everything from back- and knee pains to weakened immune response to sleep issues and cardiovascular disease...

When a severely obese person has any of the above, it's reasonable, scientifically backed diagnosis/prescription to say "these issues will probably go away by themselves if you lose weight". This is about treating the cause and not the symptoms: When severely obese people are heavily over-represented among those with a certain disease or problem, you can try treating the symptoms, but should expect that they return rather quickly.

Of course, there are cases where the issues come from something else, but no matter who goes to the doctor with health issues, their first response will be to try to treat the post probable cause.

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[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 13 points 6 days ago

Because in many cases, the weight is the problem.

Being obese has so many related sicknesses. From having sleeping problems to back pain to knee pain to more serious stuff like cardiac arrests - being fat brings so many health problems.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Weight gain can turn a small thing into a bigger thing. A outpatient procedure is more likely to turn inpatient if the patient is over 300lbs.

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (5 children)

There is a fat acceptance movement that says you can’t control your wight, and also the only healthy way to eat is to eat whatever you want whenever you want, and if doctors want to weigh their patients or inform them of the health risks of being overweight or not do operations where excess fat would create complications, the only possible explanation for any of that is fatphobia.

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