Body-shaming in the time of COVID

Conditions
June 13, 2020

The severity of COVID appears to be increased in people with obesity. This may represent an opportunity to discuss the benefits of lifestyle change with overweight patients. However, if not done appropriately, the opportunity becomes transformed into just one more damaging, body-shaming experience for the patient.

There has been much written and little done about body shaming in the health care setting: “Stigma …

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