YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS

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It's hard to imagine the rude, insensitive things that doctors have to

say about their obese patients, but they're human, too, and can be

just as thoughless as the next person.

I had a smiliar experience with a FORMER primary care physician. I

overheard his comments when I came out of the examining room after he

had left me to put my clothes on after my exam. He was telling his

nurses, " She's got a laundry list a mile long of health problems, and

they're all related to her weight. If she weren't such a heifer,

she'd be perfectly fine. " Not only the nurses heard this, but so did

the patients who were sitting in the laboratory waiting area.

I was supposed to have some blood drawn by the lab after my

examination, but I decided to leave after hearing his awful comments.

But not before I told him, in front of the same nurses and patients,

that I thought he was highly unprofessional and one of the rudest

people I'd ever met, and that I would no longer be paying him my

hard-earned money to be thought-of or discussed in that manner. He

obviously didn't take my care very seriously. His nurses gasped, he

sputtered, and I saw one of the waiting patients give me a big smile

just before I marched out of his office. I should have told him I was

reporting him to the state medical society, but I had to leave before

I snapped his little chicken neck, and all that was left of him was a

twitching stain on the carpet!

Now, I'm not suggesting you do the same, Kathy, but keep in mind, We

are the patients, and We have the power! Dr. Rutledge himself has

heard comments questioning why he would want to treat " those kind of

people. " Unfortunately, we all have to suffer all kinds of fools in

life, and some in the most unlikely places, and it can really hurt,

but your nurse was right to congratulate you on your victory with

Kaiser. And they rest of us should say a prayer for the ignorant

people of the world, including unsympathetic doctors, for they know

not what they do.

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