Patients often biased against fat doctors, too

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Patients often biased against fat doctors, too

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People are less likely to trust and follow the advice of an overweight doctor, according to a new online survey that suggests "weight bias" may go both ways in the doctor-patient relationship. "There's lots of work which shows there's a lot of bias from health professionals toward heavy patients," said Sara Bleich, an obesity and health policy researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. "What's much newer is the other direction," she told Reuters Health. ...

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