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ROCHESTER, N.H. -- As doctors warn more patients that they should lose weight, the advice has backfired on one doctor with a woman filing a complaint with the state saying he was hurtful, not helpful.

Dr. Terry Bennett says he tells obese patients their weight is bad for their health and their love lives, but the lecture drove one patient to complain to the state.

"I told a fat woman she was obese," Bennett says. "I tried to get her attention. I told her, 'You need to get on a program, join a group of like-minded people and peel off the weight that is going to kill you.' "

Her complaint, filed about a year ago, was initially investigated by a panel of the New Hampshire Board of Medicine, which recommended that Bennett be sent a confidential letter of concern. The board rejected the suggestion in December and asked the attorney general's office to investigate.
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His bedside manner may suck but he is doing his job & the AG is involved? Let the revolution begin.

Washington Post
 
Question being, why go to a doc if you're just going to sue him for telling you what's wrong and what you need to do about it? Sure, the way he said it blows, but it got the point across....
 
But did the way he said it blow?

How many of us believe A) she didn't already know she was overweight, or B) no other doctor ever mentioned it to her before this incident?

I'm of the mindset that she knew, and that she had been told by other docs that she needed to lose weight. Apparently, it didn't work. Maybe by appealing to her vanity, it might work where clinical coldness failed.

I'm overweight. I know it. I have been told by doctors (plural) that I need to lose some weight. It started motivating me when my current doc took the gloves off a bit and flat out told me some things to shock me. For that, I am grateful. Do I do everything I should? No. Do I do more now than I used to? You betcha.
 
It took an irregular heartbeat to get me off my fat ass and into exercising. Have lost about 20 lbs this last year, or so.

Many years ago, a doc I was using told me I needed to lose some excess poundage. The message didn't really sink in, because the messenger was far more in need of losing weight then I was.

I have no sympathy at all for this woman. I have a feeling she didn't like the truth and wants to shoot the messenger.
 
Jesus. I hope she dies of a heart attack while eating a Big Mac and drinking a diet coke.
 
Hmmm...how would this be prosecuted?

Attorney General:"This so-called medical doctor has slandered this poor women by calling her overweight!"

Defense attorney:"Is she?"

Judge:"Case dismissed upon further review of the evidence. If the doctor is so inclined, he may sue the plaintiff and the state medical board for harrassment."

Attorney General: :shrug:

Defense attorney: :deal:
 
I had an irregular heartbeat problem for a while... just came up here and there, then went thru every life change in the book (ok, not even close to every, but still) and lost about 80lbs.... only comes up now and then at this point, kinda nice... though my asthma comes up much more now :alienhuh:
 
I know it's wrong of me to laugh at the "so obese she might only be attractive to black men" comment, but... :rofl:
 
Inkara1 said:
I know it's wrong of me to laugh at the "so obese she might only be attractive to black men" comment, but... :rofl:
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Don't you know that black makes you look slimmer? :finger:
 
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