Fat Shaming Motivation by Doctors Does Not Work! Effects of Medical Fatphobia

Fat Shaming Motivation by Doctors Does Not Work! Effects of Medical Fatphobia

Fat shaming motivation by doctors and other health workers can cause significant problems.
In some cases, it can go beyond hurting one's feelings - some cases of misdiagnoses because doctors assumed symptoms were a result of a person's weight have been reported.

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In this fat-shaming short film, we look at the ways health workers could fat shame their patients.

This could include the use of body shaming speech or as a form of tough love motivation (tough love weight loss motivation).

However, health workers also have a responsibility to advise their patients about weight loss when it is necessary and share our knowledge about the risks of obesity to health.

We also look at how best we can support people to lose weight or provide weight loss motivation in ways that are constructive and support them on a successful weight loss journey rather than fat shaming them.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
02:26 - Attitudes of some health care workers to overweight people
04:20 - The Effects of fat shaming
06:30 - How to change HCW attitude to overweight people

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[philomenaokhavhe]

Very informative and educative. I had never thought of the psychological implication of criticizing obese people. I will change my attitude. Thank you Doc.

[DrLaraZib]

OMG this absolutely drives me insane... it just doesn't work to shame people and I can't believe it still happens. Thanks for speaking out on this important topic!!

[WhimsicalFamilyLife]

Fat shaming makes me eat more!:) Thank you for tackling this subject, so important!

[DebFoley]

So sad to think of Doctors doing this. Glad you're speaking out!

[toritaneka]

Fat shaming is not acceptable and so wrong especially coming from a doctor. Thanks for sharing on this important topic. New subbie here xx

[AlyssaCotten]

Thank you for talking about this topic!!

[abisisuconcepts]

I love what you said about healthcare workers being sensitive to the way they address their over weight patients. Kudos Dr. Sylvia!

[TheOldMayfieldPlace]

Shame on healthcare professionals for treating their patients with less than respect. Maybe if they took the time to get to the root cause of the patient's excess weight (often it is a metabolic problem and out of the patient's control) and showed compassion not contempt, the patient would be better served and put on the path to wellness.

[seahaltura]

Very important topic. Thanks for sharing your perspective regarding this matter.

[davidkieghe]

Very informative video. Most people who are overweight need support and not shaming

[DENTOSTORM]

There has to be a better and more diplomatic way of passing messages to patients no matter the shaming is certainly unethical.

[CarlineDyer]

That was a great video I learned a lot it was very informative so thank you for bringing this to light.