re: Overweight healthcare providers

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I never understand this response on an OT message board meant for discussion about anything and everything.

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It really pisses me off when I read a post saying the poster is pissed off about someone else posting something about what pisses them off.

They’re human, too. But someone else’s bad habits are fairly irrelevant to your health unless they’re making a point like, “hey. Lose weight. It’s easy,” said The Fat Man.
In that case, you’re seeing someone with poor insight OR you have a lack of understanding of something on their end. Either way is not conducive to a particularly fruitful relationship.


But, in some small defense of obesity:
The obese tend to stay obese, and there is little that changes that. But conditions related to obesity (blood pressure problems, diabetes, high cholesterol) actually respond very well to much smaller amounts of weight loss than you may think. Something like a 5-10% loss in body weight (a 334 pounder returning back to the 3 Bill mark) has tremendous positive effects on those conditions. Long term, more weight loss is essentially always better, but you get a surprising amount of “bang for the buck” health wise in that first bit. It’s important for two reasons. One, if you hear this from a doctor, you may be closer to your goal of better health than you think. Two, you may be dealing with someone who looks absolutely morbidly obese who lost enough weight to get off BP/diabetes meds. I’ve personally made the mistake of recommending weight loss to someone like this when I should have been congratulating them on the progress they’ve made so far.


In the end, your relationship with your doctor is important. Maybe he’s fat and tells you not to be. Maybe he raw dogs Vegas whores twice a year and suggested you don’t do the same when you saw him for a shot of penicillin once. Maybe she smokes when she drinks, and you’ve seen her do it at the bar and she fusses over your half pack a day. If you can’t get past that, the most important thing is to find someone you like and trust. Affability is as important as ability.

Some of the craziest people i’ve met have been “therapists”, some of the dumbest have been teachers, and there was this building contractor who lived in my old neighborhood who lived in a dilapidated monstrosity of a house that he was never finished working on. It happens.

One of the smartest ICU nurses I ever worked with was about 6 ft.tall and I would guess 400 lbs.She took very good care of her patients but the poor woman struggled her last few years.Least exertion and she would be short of breath and beads of sweat on her forehead.I expected her to collapse and die at work someday but she never did.She eventually did die of heart failure in her early 60’s.

We need nourishment because we are essential.

Stress, and how one deals with stress are very different. I’ve seen people ruin their body and lives dealing with it, and people have their different remedies, even healthcare workers....pick your own poison....

Sick care providers

Our system provides sick care (important distinction)

Perverse incentives have led to the slow destruction of the system and those within it...

Have a doctor friend who is a pretty big baw. Still bangs skinny nurses tho and fits in his Lamborghini ok.

Those big ole sista’s are the ones who take care of you best.

And scarf up those extra biscuits the patients leave behind!

Mind ya business.