• doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Fat people: I should be able to get medical care beyond being told “you should lose weight”.

    Dummies like OP: 😡

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      8 months ago

      But what if the medical care is loosing weight?

      What do you expect them to do when a 160kg dude is rolled into the ICU with his third heart attack of the month? A transplant?

      • TheSambassador@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Every time people talk about this, they always envision the most morbidly obese example that they can think of, when we’re really just talking about the average slightly overweight/obese people. Those people often have their actual medical needs ignored by doctors and are given “lose weight” as a cure all. There are literally hundreds of millions of people who experience this.

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          8 months ago

          Because in a lot of ways “lose weight” really is a cure all, and it’s not some grand mystery as to why people gain weight.

          It isn’t a doctors job to drug the people up so they don’t have to live a healthy lifestyle. Most people aren’t told too lose weight because they go to the doctor to lose weight, they’re told to lose weight when they go to the doctors for the litany of health affects surrounding obesity.