I could understand referring a patient to the obesity center or weight loss program but I have a problem with a primary care physician turning away patients because primary care is the stepping stone to getting more specialized treatments. I hate to see what she would tell me. Actually I know what she would tell me,…

As a doctor, it is her job to provide care for her patients and to help put them on the path to becoming healthy. There's a difference between coddling and creating an environment that helps people make positive changes in their lives. Telling someone they're too fat for their office is just insulting especially when…

There's a difference between patients who require specialized, bariatric equipment and someone who is 200lbs. I'm 307lbs right now. I can hop up onto a standard exam table, step on a regular scale, and sit on a regular chair. I do need a large blood pressure cuff but the same could be said of someone who have really…

Or maybe she cared enough about her health to want to be seen by a doctor? If a person doesn't really care about their health, they probably aren't going to be that put off by being told that they need to go somewhere else.

Poor fuzzy dude. I actually have a fat cat calendar at work and, as cute and cuddly as they look, I feel bad for kitties that look like they're struggling to just get around or are too round to clean themselves.

And it seems like balance is what's missing from the whole conversation. Breast feeding is a positive thing and all but it is one aspect of motherhood. And becoming a parent can be one aspect of being in a relationship that also includes the emotional and physical relationship between the parents. Nothing happens in a…