Confronting fat stigma requires more than a list of do’s and don’ts. It behooves those in the medical profession to resist suggesting that there are only a few bad apples, and that most doctors and other health care professionals treat their fat patients respectfully. Living in a culture that is consumed by feel-good narratives of weight loss and recovery means that few of us are immune to a series of embedded assumptions about fatness. And yet, like members of other marginalized communities, fat people deserve compassionate, competent care that is based on careful understandings of bodily difference and that respects their human rights.
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