Mistakes or omissions in obtaining patient weights caused almost 500 medication errors in Pennsylvania hospitals over 4.5 years, according to a state watchdog agency. The Pennsylvania Patient Safety ...

But when she went in for the operation, she got some unsolicited advice: The surgeon said she should lose weight, suggesting that her size and her injured thumb were connected. "He was making the ...

A growing number of doctors across a wide range of specialties have done away with routine patient weigh-ins in an effort to avoid weight shaming, but others argue this obscures a critical health ...

Obesity has historically been regarded as a moral failing, and people with obesity describe being seen as deficient, lazy, and/or undeserving of respect, lacking willpower and self-discipline, and ...

Obesity specialist Carolynn Francavilla Brown, MD, was treating a woman in her late 40s, who was taking tirzepatide for several months — and successfully reaching her weight-loss goals — without any ...

Almost everyone with a larger body has a horror story about a time they tried to get health care but couldn’t. Take Beckie Hill. In 2019, she tripped and hurt her knees. When she went to her doctor ...

About five years ago, Sarah Barak badly tore a ligament in her thumb and needed surgery to get it reattached. But when she went in for the operation, she got some unsolicited advice: The surgeon said ...