Weight Stigma and Paradigm Straddling - Part 2

In part 1 we talked about a Medscape Today article that reader Antoni sent me about weight stigma in healthcare called “Weight Stigma is Bad Medicine.” The author, Mengyi (Zed) Zha, MD made important points about weight stigma, some of which aren’t often aren’t made. So there’s a lot of good in the article, which I appreciate.

What Dr. Zha has written is brave (and she will undoubtedly get criticism from those who implicit or explicit anti-fat bias drives their thoughts about and interactions with higher-weight people.) I’m beyond grateful that she wrote this article

That doesn’t mean I’m not going to push farther, though, because there is more to the journey here to reduce the harm done to higher-weight people by the healthcare system and the providers within it.

So there are some issues with the article that I want to discuss.