If you ever observe an individual in your instruction shaming someone because of weight, drug use, smoking history, or risky sex, take them out of the treatment environment and ask them how many people they've saved that way. There are times and places for difficult medical truths. Those intervals occur within…

I like that what everyone decided to take from this is you don't like cars. Not, you know, the whole not fat shaming thing.

As a PA student that is beginning rotations in August I hope to encounter other healthcare providers like you.

I don't think that the two situations are entirely analagous. For a start, I don't think that patients are quite the same as business clients. And I don't like the consumer-capitalist model of healthcare. So I think we're destined to disagree on this one!

not sure I agree with your car analogy, but you're dead on that being overweight is coded as low class. I've noticed a great deal of classism at play when educated, highly-paid people (not just doctors) discuss obesity.

In the case of a person with a disorder which may be weight related, an adequate medical history would include food and exercise habits. I specialize in diabetes, and for every Coke-swilling, doughnut-gobbling diabetic I meet, I meet two who have tried extensively lifestyle modifications, or live a fairly healthy…

He doesn't really think anything. He just wants to combine his dislike of fat people with his favourite hobby of playing devil's advocate.

So just to clarify, a more "worthwhile patient" is one who is — according to your commentary thus far — fundamentally less likely to actually need a doctor? Because a GP's time is valuable, so they should want to spend the absolute minimum of that time treating patients who require treatment?

Well, in countries with 'socialised medicine' then taxpayers (all of them) paid for the doctor's education and pay a proportion of their salary. And generally the number of doctors trained is designed to accommodate the needs of the population. If there was a shortage of GPs then maybe it would make sense to…

I'm a healthcare provider and I try to explain it to my judgy coworkers like this. With few exceptions, most of our patients regularly strap themselves into metal cans and accelerate upwards of 10x natural human running speed. It's not natural, it's terribly unsafe, and it's entirely the product of our consumer…

Oh my god. The people in my life who are asking for exorbitant amounts of money to film a music video/go on a cross country poetry reading/create a new line of fashion made out of cat hair will never not make me do this:

If we're going to be seeing Zoisa Mamet on our TV sets for the next 20 years, I would be willing to chip in for some acting lessons.

Am I bad person because I want to punch them both in the face? $30k would go a short way toward paying off some of my student loan debt. I sort of hate them.

Wheat free diet is simply a fad. It too shall pass.

Stop pushing pseudoscience. Ingesting wheat does not cause you to have stomach fat anymore than eating anything else in excess of your caloric needs.

What's with getting off on the idea that whatever we are, we are not supposed to be? as if there were some almighty absolute body, or career, or boyfriend, or hairdo that is the be-all-end-all accomplishment of our lives.. I mean, come on, is that satisfying? What kills us is the stress and self-hate. If you're…

Lol @ you passive aggressively trying to make the point that only unattractive women dislike Victoria's Secret. Go back to Reddit, you sexist troll.

Does it matter? And if someone does something really dehumanising to a seasoned performer in front of thousands of people, are you really going to take their response as taken from a cellphone video from hundreds of feet away as a particularly faithful way to gauge every nuance of how they felt about being treated as…

Sexual intent or not, no one is entitled to invade another's personal space like that without their consent. It's simple. Keep your hands to yourself.

Straight dudes don't slap each other's butts unless they know each other. Because to slap a stranger's ass is gonna get your ass kicked, no matter what continent you're on. Unless you wanting to get your ass kicked by a stranger because you slapped his ass is your unique way of getting a "good job" said to you.