Doctors are obligated to discuss weight with their patients. They are assessing their health. I guess I just don't understand this feeling that doctors are somehow unable to assess an individual's health and weight simply because they themselves are not overweight. :?:

I think as most of us know on here that gaining weight isn't hard or challenging. and when you have a stressful job (doctors) its ten times worse.

people should think doctors are humans too.

funny billboard by the way. :^:

I'm not sure why advice from a healthy, never been obese, physician would be any more acceptable to those objecting to advice from an obese physician.

Are we going to require physicians treating obesity to be formerly obese? Do we object to psychiatrists and psychologists who have never had the illness they're treating? Do we object to physical therapists who have never lived with a herniated disc? Distrust the advise of endocrinologists who don't have PCOS?