re: Mom Gives Perfect Response After Nurse Body-Shames Her 13-Year-Old Daughter

If a medical professional used the term "all this weight" it would indicate a significant change from a prior baseline.

Maybe Riley was 50% for height and 35 % for weight and now was 50% for height and 75% for weight.

I take height and weight at each visit on every developing child I see. There is a medical reason for following it. Diseases, medication side effects, and poor intake/exercise habits. You do your very best to catch things early. I don't take 3 mins of my time to make people feel good or bad. Its objective data.

I bet this mom would be the first one to post on social media that the medical professionals "missed a diagnosis" if they ignored her weight and she got sick.

Bookmarked for when she turns 18

This sounds like the nurse made a joke in poor taste that didn’t go the way she thought it would.

Also the article says it was a physicians assistant then a nurse practitioner, then a nurse. What was it?

Why is the nurse asking this instead of the dr? This mom secretly thinks her daughter is fat. She feels bad because she feels this way. She makes up this story so she can prove to the world via Facebook that she doesn’t feel that way. Then dumbasses see this story and post it on message boards

Attention.

Was expecting the "Can I speak to the manager" haircut. Everybody is looking for a reason to get offended and then post it on social media for attention. The nurse's comments MIGHT have embarrassed the daughter in front of her mom. The Mom's comments broadcasted her daughter's weight gain to the whole world. That is great parenting! God help us!

Things about this that make me hate facebook obsessed moms. These are the types of people who think their worth is defined by likes.

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Venn pulled the nurse aside to have a private discussion about what had been said.

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Yet she doesn't hesitate to go on facebook and release said private conversation.....obviously for attention.

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They already have to compare themselves to the ridiculous social media bullshite standards.

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Again, she is on facebook ranting to strangers and looking for likes because she put that damn nurse in her place. Bitching about facebook standards, and playing into them.....wow mom. You are so brave.

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“Know that some girls gain weight, some lose weight, some struggle with acne, some feel insecure but remember this- YOU ARE PERFECT just the way you are. This is just the beginning of a long, confusing, sometimes scary road to becoming a woman but it is worth it!”

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If a nurse said all this while taking vitals, I would be creeped the frick out, and THAT would be the reason to not go back. Not being questioned about supposed weight gain.


Also notice the mom did not mention the girls actual weight. And what the difference was, since it was such a big fricking deal.

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That's what you get when clinics tried to increase their patient numbers, but not hire actual medical doctors instead using nurse practitioners with 1/10 of the training... Peds residency 3 years, nurse practitioner peds rotation 3 months.

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There are a lot of RN's out there who spend more time with patients than doctors do. Outside of work in an OR, know about as much as the human anatomy, how it works, how to diagnose, and what to prescribe. So just because a Dr spends 3 years in residency doesn't totally separate them from a nurse who's worked in hospitals, clinics for the same or even longer.