Facing Our Prejudices
Danielle’s new essay on doctors facing our own prejudices with obese patients, on a new website called “The Responsibility Project.”
“I had to be honest—I was uncomfortable with my new patient, a woman in her late thirties, in my office for a general medical check-up. Ms. M. was petite in stature, but wide in girth, a medical condition we’d term “morbid obesity.” Her face was entirely swallowed up in thick fleshy layers of neck and jowl. Her belly was so overgrown and pendulous that it hung like a third appendage between her legs. Her hips and legs were so wide that her gait was impeded…”