Buy Walking VideosDoctors Aren’t Perfect (Part Two)
A doctor is under scrutiny because he called a patient obese. Here are the details:
This article doesn’t mention what kind of practice Dr. Terry Bennett runs. If I were in to see him for my yearly checkup, then I could understand if he warned me that my weight might be an issue. If I were seeing him because of allergies or any number of other non-related health concerns, then I would be angry. If I go in to a doctor because I have a sinus infection, I don’t need a lecture on my weight, I need an antibiotic.
I have endured the condescending tone of a doctor before. I am still angry with that man to this day. My Irritable Bowel Syndrome wasn’t caused by my fat. Now that I’m thin, I know this. It wasn’t even my diet. Now that I eat a perfectly healthy diet, I still have stomach issues. Some doctors need a reality check and it sounds like Dr. Terry Bennett is finally getting his.
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September 5th, 2005 at 7:03 am
Hi, I read this story too. Follow-up stories mention the rest of his comments:
“”Let’s face it, if your husband were to die tomorrow, who would want you?” the state Board of Medicine says Dr. Terry Bennett told the overweight patient in June 2004.
“Well, men might want you, but not the types you want to want you. Might even be a black guy,” it quoted him as saying, based on the woman’s complaint.
The board said it also is taking a second look at a 2001 allegation — deemed unfounded at the time — that Bennett told a woman recovering from brain surgery to buy a pistol and shoot herself to end her suffering.”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/08/31/obese.complaint.ap/
So she wasn’t objecting to the comments about her obesity, but quite rightfully so about his ridiculous racist comments.