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Should you tell your patient if they are obese?

Telling overweight patients they are obese could be seen as “derogatory”, a health watchdog has warned. If you were obese, would you want to be told? Do you think the new guidance is patronising?

Frankly Speaking

Frankly Speaking Read Frankly Speaking for the uncensored take on the world of healthcare and the NHS.

Updated weekly, Frank Leigh's tongue-in-cheek column is penned exclusively for GP Commissioning Guide.

The Great Unwashed

I don’t know if you’ve been on the Tube when the weather’s hot, but during the evening rush hour it’s really the last place you want to be. It’s packed tight with smelly, sweaty bodies and you have nowhere to turn when you find that your face, unfortunately, is slotted into the fetid armpit of the man holding the rail above your head.

Insulted intelligence

When you’re two years old, an insult is when you call someone ‘icky’ or ‘pooey’. A little bit older and it might be something more complex and imaginative. Like the insult thrown my way by the four-year-old daughter of a friend. She didn't like me. So she told me I was 'in the bin.’

Breaking the rules

Cause and effect. It’s how we live our lives. It helps us make sense of the world. Cause and effect explains why apples fall from trees, why stock markets crash, why we tend to get hangovers only after we drink. Look at your watch. Take a note of the time. One minute follows the next. It moves forwards, not backwards. Nothing, it seems, is random.

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