Posted on 02/13/2010 7:43:42 PM PST by GSP.FAN
A surgeon in New Zealand has received a dressing down for swearing at a severely obese patient. The New Zealand Herald newspaper reports the doctor said "f..." at least three times after the 44-year-old obese woman told him she did not like the word "diet" and preferred the term "lifestyle".
the first time my brother went to see his new doc the fellow came into the room and said, “okay, mr. what the f*** is wrong with you?” brother decided this was the perfect doctor.
LARD..
The gift from the gods..
You are correct about folks who lose touch with their humanity, however, it is worth entering into the discussion with a reminder.
It has been interesting to watch this evolve. Socialists for so long manipulated the good will and compassion of Americans to forward their schemes and enslavement.
They created such a backlash that it became knee jerk to discount compassion and human dignity in a freedom sort of way which has nothing to do with socialism. Does that make any sense?
I wonder if she prefers “getting to see God ahead of schedule” over “dead by fatness”.
He should not have used that _F_ word. He should have politely and honestly used the other _F_ word: fat. She should have deferred to his advice to begin with instead of mouthing crazy, typically domineering, militancy talk about her health problem.
Baseless pride makes us worse. Humility is a vehicle to improving ourselves. We should all get in better shape.
It does make sense.
I really have to watch my freeper time(its a lot) sometimes. I believe there are nutty people on both sides of the spectrum. And I can’t take what’s on FR as gospel. Many on here are not in touch with reality.
I’ve learned a lot tonight on about 5 threads I’ve visited.
I would love to write a book on the political climate and fallicies of liberalism. I would address the bs of man-made climate change, the bs of second hand smoke, asbestos, and other fallacies.
Nice to meet you ;o)
No one is ultimately getting out young, healthy and alive! ;)
Maybe the NZ doctor also works on sheep. Sheepherders probably pay better than NZ Nationalized health.
As someone who has battled weight her whole life I’m telling you the best thing that ever happened to me is when someone I cared about took me aside and told me I needed to lose weight. The first one was my Father when I was 15 years old. I was crushed, but I wanted him to be proud of me and I lost weight and it was the best thing I did for myself as a 15 year old girl. The next time would be over 20 years later. My best friend had the guts to tell me what nobody else would, that I was as big as she’d ever seen me. I couldn’t lie to myself anymore and I lost 40 pounds in the next three months and have worked my ass off (so to speak) to never put it back on again. four years later I am 120 pounds, a size 4 and I have earned the right to say the things I do.
I’ll say it again, any woman who tells you she is happy being fat is LYING and would give years of her life to be thin. That’s just a fact.
I don’t define compassion as making people feel ok about the things they have the power to change. There are very few things we really have control over in life. Our weight is one of them. Sue me.
You have it all wrong..it’s not superiority..IT IS COMPASSION because I have been on both sides..and I know.
The doctor doesn’t work for her, he works for the government healthcare system probably, she’s just another number.
I know that many fail to kick non-mind altering non-criminal addictions in thier lives (smoking, overeating, negativity, etc.) The human spirit and experience is unique to each and each has their own troubles that we can not always see and have have the self control or power to transform.
What blocked a total genius I befriended from pursuing his potenial in physics? He delivered mail. He could not get himself to submit to school. But he is a great friend and I love him even though he failed in the sense of an outsider’s judgement. But his “smart” is still there even though one may call it wasted. It is not. His wit and wisdom is worth all the University degrees in the Universe.
Being fat is one I have not, by the grace of God, had to deal with, but i have plenty of habitual faults that are in need of fixing and I don’t find it easy to fix me. (I had to go through chemo and radiation for breast cancer and it would have helped me to have an extra thirty pounds to lose. I lost thirty pounds I did not have to lose which caused it’s own problems.) So I can understand the failures or imperfections of o
thers and do not harm, hurt, hate or reject them for their lack of beauty, weaknesses and failures cause I would have to do that to me if I did that to them.
If we could do better, we would do better. If we are stuck in criminal patterns we have to be removed from society so we don’t molest, rob and murder others. But if we are stuck on harming ourselves, it’s nobody’s authority to bother people about that. That is petty. There are more important things to do with your mind and energy than play judgemental bully.
Using the socialist material mantra of “health care dollars” as an excuse to turn us into a fascist monstrosity hating and condemming people in a “ten minute of hate” session led by politics or the culture is wrong. That turns us into progressive monsters and sooner or later it will catch up with all of us.
And the “diet” worked so well and that is why she was going for gastric bypass surgery. /s/
socialized medicine 2004 - New Zealand:
Hawke’s Bay Regional Hospital’s only gastroenterologist and part-time general physician, Malcolm Arnold, said there were 458 patients were on his waiting list alone, with 180 still awaiting a definite time to have their procedures performed... Those with highest priority included patients with bowel cancer or cancer of the oesophagus”.
Hildy, it is great you were able to overcome whatever problem you had with weight. By the grace of God and genetics, fat was never one of mine, but I have plenty of crap to change about myself! My doctors were wishing I was fat when I was treated for breast cancer and lost thirty pounds I did not have to lose!
You are very fortunate to have the internal strength and make up (maybe spiritual boost) to overcome weight problems. You know it is hard to change something so basic. Have compassion for those who are not as well equipped and blessed as you are. Don’t condem and disrespect them because that deminishes the struggle you master with yourself. Remember how hard (on all levels) it is to change successfully as you have been blessed to do. Have mercy on others.
Nice to meet you, too.
He did you a favor in exposing himself before you were in a mess. Get another doctor!
:o)
Are you fat?
The doctor in this case demanded the woman who wanted gastric bypass surgery “go on a diet.’ She said it would be better to seek a “life style change.” She was right; he was wrong.
You are right - there is no need to deny our problems. Your problem is obvious - right on your body for everyone to see. But be sure, all the ones pointing about your fat tummy have many serious problems that are unseen.
Again, we have different definitions of compassion. You don’t know me and I don’t know you. You have no idea the things I’ve had to overcome and deal with in my life. Believe me, none of my problems ever changed by being coddled.
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