Whatto! once more............
I was reading that there is to be a new slant on Doctor's bed-side manners "Every GP [General Practitioner - Doctor] is to be instructed to tell fat patients that they should lose weight, putting doctors in the front line of a new offensive to tackle Britain’s growing obesity problem," according to the Times Newspaper.............
It goes on...... "In future GPs will have to treat obesity as if it were any other medical condition and advise the overweight to slim.
I wonder if this is the first time that doctors have been asked to cajole fat patients, old and young, to eat less, improve their diets and take exercise? The move by the Public Health Minister, is directed in particular at children and young people who need help to lose their excess pounds." I can imagine the following conversation in surgeries up and down the country: Patient: I can't be as overweight as you say -perhaps I'm just 'Big Boned'?..........
Doctor: Maybe you would prefer to look at it in a different way. According to this chart, you're about 10 inches too short!......
Tallyho!
Best Wishes - Lord Noel
I was reading that there is to be a new slant on Doctor's bed-side manners "Every GP [General Practitioner - Doctor] is to be instructed to tell fat patients that they should lose weight, putting doctors in the front line of a new offensive to tackle Britain’s growing obesity problem," according to the Times Newspaper.............
It goes on...... "In future GPs will have to treat obesity as if it were any other medical condition and advise the overweight to slim.
I wonder if this is the first time that doctors have been asked to cajole fat patients, old and young, to eat less, improve their diets and take exercise? The move by the Public Health Minister, is directed in particular at children and young people who need help to lose their excess pounds." I can imagine the following conversation in surgeries up and down the country: Patient: I can't be as overweight as you say -perhaps I'm just 'Big Boned'?..........
Doctor: Maybe you would prefer to look at it in a different way. According to this chart, you're about 10 inches too short!......Tallyho!
Best Wishes - Lord Noel
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