YOU DON'T LOOK ANOREXIC"New research shows that our assumptions about eating disorders are often wrong - and that many larger-bodied people are starving themselves ( Read more... )

Maggie Stiefvater wrote:

I had to delete so many chapters of the Dreamer Trilogy, right up to the last book, because I was too angry ( Read more... )

Fat Patients’ Bias Epidemic: https://medium.com/@thefatshadow/the-bias-epidemic-8f27e79bd21c

Excerpt:

"Have you ever been misdiagnosed by a doctor due to your size? What were the repercussions of your misdiagnosis?” I asked on Twitter. I had become ( Read more... )

Too busy to break it down but this is amazing! https://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a19608429/medical-fatshaming/

Given my stomach pain I decided to give Dave's doc a try ( Read more... )

Your Fat Friend asked a simple but important question ( Read more... )

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The Shocking Ways Large Women Are Mistreated by Health-Care ProvidersFact: A review of studies published in the journal Obesity Reviews in 2015 surveying empirical evidence across multiple disciplines showed that health care professionals’ negative feelings about fat bodies can lead to misdiagnosis and late or “missed” diagnoses, negatively ( Read more... )

Roxane Gay, I’m Sorry I Wasn’t Listening by Allison McCarthy ( Read more... )

On being a fat medical student, at the start of our metabolism moduleExcerpt ( Read more... )