"fucking" surgeon

[newkaligula]

cut and paste from yahoo news. Every day I feel like this. For some people the normal laws of physics do not seem to apply. I have been assured by some that water makes them put on weight and they only "eat like a sparrow". I would imagine this patient was like that

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[sirroy]

I've seen those people who eat like a sparrow. A sparrow that's never full!

I've seen some horrendous things that doctors have said to patients. I always think it looks really bad when it is quoted back in black and white. I know they have huge egos and it's hard sometimes to deal with the ordinary people but I can often imagine how these conversations go, with the doctors trying to communicate in the vernacular.

[miketroll]

Oh boy! I can well understand the surgeon's urge to say "fuck" a few times in this situation. Insistence on use of the term "lifestyle" counts as severe provocation.

That woman has shit for brains. A big part of her problem is the modern urge to medicalize human behaviour: thus obesity becomes a disease of which the patient is a hapless victim; she need do nothing about it herself, just wait passively while the experts find a pill to cure it.

Again it's denial of physics: if calories consumed exceed calories burned, the result is fat. We all control what goes in our mouths.

Still, it was clearly unprofessional to swear at an (ex-)patient, but the NZ Health Commissioner has intervened on the wrong issue. (Is this a polly or a medic, btw?) The commissioner should be offered counselling. A raised middle finger should suffice.