I have mixed feelings on this report:
Overweight Women May Find Accessing Healthcare Difficult And Stressful
I mean, yes, you're overweight, and you probably didn't really ask to be so large because obesity is more complex than just "stop eating, you fool", but you are overweight and getting over that and accepting that you're a pariah might be a good thing for you, emotionally.
OTOH, this comment had me giggling with a feeling of sympathetic horror:
For example, the doctor delivering Doris' son upset her with a tactless remark at a time when she feeling particularly vulnerable because of her size. "He said 'Just relax and just envision yourself on a beach like a big ole whale beached.' "
What would Cameron say?
I'm ashamed to say I've never seen that show. But I have been treated dismissively by doctors, and not for being fat. In the old days, before they had a lot of migraine treatment options, I had a doctor pat me on the leg and act like my headaches were nothing. Now they can write an Rx, so they act more caring. Maybe if they feel they can't do anything it upsets them, so they take it out on the patient? I bet it's not only fat women who've had bad experiences with doctors.
On another note, the more I read lately the more I'm starting to think that weight isn't really as easy to control as I used to believe. People who can control it are outliers, maybe.
There are exceptions, but most docs I've encountered share that arrogance trait. I remember reading an article in one of the magazines that was in my GYN's office. I am of the age where I long for the end of my periods and this article talked about uterine ablation as a method some women choose to deliberately end their periods. I was curious about it, and asked the doc once he finished torturing me.
He smirked. "What, did you read that off of the Internet?"
Um, no, you overbloated bag of self-importance, I read it in your fucking office and asked you for information on it. Gonna answer, or just sneer?
~nods~ Typical.
BTW, I had that ablation thingie, and my life is infinitely better for it. I waited until I was extremely miserable though because of my fear of anesthesia.