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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1oav8bu at May 20, 2014 at 04:30AM
PSA
thisisthinprivilege:
Maybe, just fucking maybe, if surgeons were actually TRAINED ON fat bodies, they would have an easier time operating on fat bodies. Maybe if medical schools accepted donations of fat cadavers to practice on, surgeons could get some experience. Maybe if they were trained on fat bodies, and then actually worked on fat bodies, they could develop specific surgical techniques and correct fucking dosages of anesthetics for actual fat bodies. Maybe if they bothered to treat fat people well and appropriately, as patients who need treatment instead of as problems, they would actually understand fat bodies instead of having problems because they don’t know how fat bodies work.
But no. Fat bodies are automatically bad and problematic, so doctors and surgeons place all the blame on the fat people, instead of actually taking some fucking responsibility and learning to treat them. Particularly when all the goddamn evidence shows that weight loss does not fucking work.
Thin privilege is having doctors actually learn how to give you appropriate treatment, instead of passing the buck.
PSA
thisisthinprivilege:
Maybe, just fucking maybe, if surgeons were actually TRAINED ON fat bodies, they would have an easier time operating on fat bodies. Maybe if medical schools accepted donations of fat cadavers to practice on, surgeons could get some experience. Maybe if they were trained on fat bodies, and then actually worked on fat bodies, they could develop specific surgical techniques and correct fucking dosages of anesthetics for actual fat bodies. Maybe if they bothered to treat fat people well and appropriately, as patients who need treatment instead of as problems, they would actually understand fat bodies instead of having problems because they don’t know how fat bodies work.
But no. Fat bodies are automatically bad and problematic, so doctors and surgeons place all the blame on the fat people, instead of actually taking some fucking responsibility and learning to treat them. Particularly when all the goddamn evidence shows that weight loss does not fucking work.
Thin privilege is having doctors actually learn how to give you appropriate treatment, instead of passing the buck.
