Doctors and nurses' weight biases harm overweight patients

Negative reinforcement demonstrably does not work and can discourage patients from seeking future treatment.I'm quite thin now, but that wasn't always the case. As a child, I carried around extra weight for many years — and my brothers never let me forget it. They called me "Logs" (as in, my legs looked like them) and "Orca" (as in, I was the size of one). I think "Moo Cow Chunk Chunk" was the one that stung the most.

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