Can doctors see beyond a patient’s weight?
My older sister, Jan, visited me in San Francisco last spring. “You look great,” I told her, noticing that her clothes were hanging loose; she’d been heavy most of her life. “I’ve lost 60 pounds,” she said, and I automatically congratulated her.
“I wasn’t trying,” she replied.
It hit me then that something was very wrong, first with …
Can doctors see beyond a patient’s weight?
