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ROCHESTER, N.H. - As doctors warn more patients that they should lose weight, the advice has backfired on one doctor with a woman filing a complaint with the state saying he was hurtful, not helpful.

Dr. Terry Bennett says he tells obese patients their weight is bad for their health and their love lives, but the lecture drove one patient to complain to the state.

“I told a fat woman she was obese,” Bennett says. “I tried to get her attention. I told her, 'You need to get on a program, join a group of like-minded people and peel off the weight that is going to kill you.'"

He says he wrote a letter of apology to the woman when he found out she was offended.

Her complaint, filed about a year ago, was initially investigated by a panel of the New Hampshire Board of Medicine, which recommended that Bennett be sent a confidential letter of concern. The board rejected the suggestion in December and asked the attorney general’s office to investigate.

Bennett rejected that office’s proposal that he attend a medical education course and acknowledge that he made a mistake.

Bruce Friedman, chairman of the board of medicine, said he could not discuss specific complaints. Assistant Attorney General Catherine Bernhard, who conducted the investigation, also would not comment, citing state law that complaints are confidential until the board takes disciplinary action.

The board’s Web site says disciplinary sanctions may range from a reprimand to the revocation of all rights to practice in the state.

“Physicians have to be professional with patients and remember everyone is an individual. You should not be inflammatory or degrading to anyone,” said board member Kevin Costin.

Other overweight patients have come to Bennett’s defense.

“What really makes me angry is he told the truth,” Mindy Haney told WMUR-TV on Tuesday. “How can you punish somebody for that?”

Haney said Bennett has helped her lose more than 150 pounds, but acknowledged that she initially didn’t want to listen.

“I have been in this lady’s shoes. I’ve been angry and left his practice. I mean, in-my-car-taking-off angry,” Haney said. “But once you think about it, you’re angry at yourself, not Doctor Bennett. He’s the messenger. He’s telling you what you already know.”

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Just another friendly reminder of the sordid world we live in; where fat jokes can be cause for a lawsuit.
 
So she went to the doctor so he could monitor her health, he told her "you have a weight problem and it is negatively affecting your health"(which he is in charge of protecting since he is her doctor), and she got offended?

Ugh. She deserves to be fat and unhealthy. I hope it keeps her from reproducing.
 
Silencer said:
New Hampshire? Is that in England?
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Nah. In England you can scrap the 'new' bit. Coz, y'know, we can think up our own names and stuff.
 
I immediately disliked this lady the first time I heard about this. The doctor even apologized, which I don’t think he even owed anyone even that, and it still wasn’t enough for her. Maybe she should get a couple of heart attacks and then sue her god for telling her she was fat too rudely.
 
I hope she dies. No rly.

Anyways, this seems as good a place as any to post some fat jokes;

She's so fat, her blood type is ragu.
She's so fat, they had to take her school picture from a spy plane.
She's so fat, she parks her car in the folds under her chin.

And my personal favorite (courtesy of Al Bundy):
She's so fat she has three smaller fat women in orbit.
 
well, no. You don't know the whole story, since they are withholding information due to pending lawsuit. A woman on another forum said that she's heard of this before, and it happened to her. Some doctors don't just say "you are overweight blah blah". They say mean and harmful stuff, more than what was probably said.

The woman who mentioned this said that she was skinny and worked out a lot (she still does). But after she had her first baby, she gained 50 lbs in a month. Her doctor said all this stuff about it being marital problems, when he never met her husband. No reason to say that person kind of stuff, especially since it wasn't true. Turns out she had some medical problems that needed to be squared away.

Then again, it might be true that this woman got upset over a small comment, because Americans are little bitches who don't believe when other people tell them true things. I heard on the radio that 20% of the US population is fat. That's astronomical!
 
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Then again, it might be true that this woman got upset over a small comment, because Americans are little bitches who don't believe when other people tell them true things. I heard on the radio that 20% of the US population is fat. That's astronomical!
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Are you sure it is not just 'overweight' on the scale? Statistics alone would show that this is probably not that suprising, as average is precisely that, 'average'. Considering you are using a range for such a scale, that many percent over or underweight is probably quite normal.
 
Actually:
The prevalence of obesity rose from 22.9 percent in the last survey (conducted 1988-1994), to 30.5 percent in 1999-2000. The number of those considered overweight, including the obese, also rose during this period, from 55.9 percent to 64.5 percent. Extreme obesity increased as well, with 4.7 percent now being considered obese, compared with 2.9 percent in the last survey.
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Linky!
 
Hehe, this reminds me of the last time I went to my previous doctor. I was 14 or so at the time, and my mother came with me.

Dr: "So tell me, what's wrong?"
Me: "I have a painfull throat, a nasty caugh, and pain in my longs."
Dr: "Again?"
Me: "what do you mean, again?"
Dr: "That's the third time in less than a year and a half you've come in here and describe symptoms for a disease that requires antibiotic treatment..."
Me: "Ehm... Yeah well, I wish I could help it."
Dr: "Pehaps you are helping it..."
Me: "What do you mean?"
Dr: "Admit it, you are doing this for the antibiotics"
Me: "... What?"
Dr: "You're addicted to it, aren't you?"
Me: "... What?"
*my mother gives me a dirty stare*
me: "Dude, I'm bloody sick. You want me to caugh a flume on your face?"
 
Jebus, you have to reload your game now, getting rid of addiction is a bitch, especially with antibiotics. It's better to start from a previous save. Personally, I never use combat drugs.
 
man I hate these fat people if they're too stupid to realize hey I'm bigger than all the skinnies! then they need to be shot with a horse tranquilizer and dropped in the desert with only 2 energy bars and a canteen of water. It is possible he said some mean things but probably not likely. the point he apologized for it is entirely moronic. she needed to be told the truth and if the truth is mean then again you are a moron. you went to the doctor because you had a problem, get used to it and get rid of it don't complain about it and hope to buy more mcdonalds with the money from the lawsuit.

and jebus get off the stimpacks
 
Eye? What do you mean??? How did you know that I'm famous for ..... oh wait a minute. err... I had no sexual relationship with fat women. :look:
 
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