In a profoundly insightful article published in Vox, Farah Naz Khan, MD, puts it out there: Medicine is failing obesity. From advice to doesn’t work, to diagnostic equipment that can’t support obese patients, it’s clear to this doctor that obese patients often can’t get the care they need.
Health care providers are generally ill-equipped to deal with obese patients and their complex health needs. Over the years of my medical training, I’ve seen more and more examples of obese patients unable to get the care they need.
Consider the challenges of something as simple as diagnostic testing. In medical school, we had a patient who was transferred to our academic tertiary care facility because she could not fit in the CT scanner at her local community hospital.
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