Connecticut College psychology professor Joan Chrisler is warning against doctors engaging in so-called “medical fat shaming” with their obese patients, which includes, but is not limited to, advising a patient to lose weight.
The professor essentially argues that fat patients are told to lose weight by their no-good fat-shaming doctors instead of recommending “CAT scans, blood work, or physical therapy” as they would for “average weight patients.” Such shaming, says Chrisler, is “mentally and physically harmful,” can stigmatize a patient, and lead to misdiagnosis. Campus Reform reports:
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