Originally Posted by Judee Smudee One wonders if he was particularly nasty in his manner when he told the patient that she was fat. On the other hand some people are super sensitive about their weight. We can't really tell how things went down unless we hear the exact conversation. One would think that if the BOM made him apologize he was pretty nasty. Someone asked me for the salt the other day in the cafeteria. Before passing it to them I told reminded them of their BP problems. I wonder if I could lose my license over that remark.
I wonder about the nasty manner when another patient is rallying support. Perhaps he wasn't nasty to her but nasty to this other patient. As you say, we weren't there.
I would never call another person fat, and I don't condone/approve of a medical profressional using the word, but it's not considered profanity and I'm a bit uncomfortable with censorship. Maybe if I was obese having a doctor say "you're fat" would anger me, but perhaps it would anger me into action. Or perhaps I would just say, "I don't like your bedside manner and you're fired". I don't know what I'd do, but I certainly wouldn't go to a lawyer making a complaint, if the truth was I was overweight.
i kinda wish...
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