Are doctors biased against obese patients?
Overweight and obese people are often the butt of jokes and the victims
of bias, yet one would think they could at least find civility in the
doctor's office.
Not necessarily so, according to two separate studies. One study revealed that many medical students have an unconscious anti-obesity bias,
mirroring medical instructors, and another showed that obese patients
are more likely than normal-weight patients to switch doctors because of
negative interactions with their physicians.
The study of medical students was conducted by researchers at Wake
Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., and appears in the
July issue of the journal Academic Medicine. The researchers found that
nearly two out of five medical students at Wake Forest had an
unconscious, or implicit, bias against obese people.
For the rest of the story: http://www.livescience.com/34806-obesity-bias-medical-students-doctors.html
No comments:
Post a Comment