Physician Demonstrates Medical Weight Stigma and Bias
Weight and Healthcare · Ragen Chastain
December 6, 20239m 49s
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Show Notes
I have written before about the various types of weight stigma that can impact healthcare including implicit weight stigma and bias (wherein people have negative beliefs and stereotypes about fat people and are acting on them unconsciously) and explicit bias (wherein people are fully aware that they have negative beliefs and stereotypes about fat people and are acting on them). Today we have a doctor who seemed to be going out of their way to demonstrate textbook explicit bias.
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