firecat: How to deal with judgemental doctors

firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) (

firecat) wrote,
@ 2011-10-13 01:02 pm UTC

Entry tags:	fat, health, health at every size, linkage, prejudice, queer, question authority
Crossposts:	http://firecat.livejournal.com/738478.html

How to deal with judgemental doctors

Anna North of jezebel.com interviewed me about how to deal with doctors who are judgemental of your weight. Her article also discusses how to deal with doctors who are judgemental of your sexuality.

http://jezebel.com/5849489/how-to-deal-with-judgy-doctors

ETA: Be careful of the comments.

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tiferet
2011-10-13 08:42 pm UTC (link)

The general warning not to read comments if you are easily triggered definitely applies--your interview is great but omg, there is a woman gushing in the comments because her doctor liposuctioned her without asking after removing her ovarian cyst, and she thinks this was a helpful and benevolent act. There is so much not getting it I cannot decide if the commenter is completely brainwashed and the doctor really did that (sadly both are possible) or if we are being very cleverly trolled.

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	no subject firecat 2011-10-13 11:15 pm UTC (link)
	I've seen other semi-trolly comments on Jezebel. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject laughingrat 2011-10-13 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	That is a very cool article! (Reply to this)

	no subject jae 2011-10-13 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, cool! Good for you. -J (Reply to this)

	no subject lilacsigil 2011-10-14 12:36 am UTC (link)
	In Firefox, I've found the CommentBlocker add-on to be very useful - I often want to read articles like this (and this was a good one!) but I'm a fast reader and I've usually seen two or three of the comments before my brain has even registered that it's time to stop now! So now I can read articles like this without then triggering myself. (Reply to this)

	no subject cereta 2011-10-14 02:42 am UTC (link)
	Thank you for the link! (Reply to this)

	no subject wordweaverlynn 2011-10-14 03:47 am UTC (link)
	Thanks -- sharing! (Reply to this)

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