Surgeon reprimanded for swearing at obese patient

"Lifestyle" to "diet", what a crack up...I needed a good laugh, cheers, great start to my day...I'm not a betting kind of person but I bet it happened in the HawkesBay...I suggest he wash his mouthout with soap as mum would do and promise to never do it again, hahahahhaha

Well at the end of the day as a doctor you'd probably find it frustrating too, that you are paying 40% income tax only for it to be wasted on a seemingly unmotivated woman, who can't even articulate her condition in an realistic, and appropriate manner. Seeing these people everyday, multiple times (because the same cohort keep coming back), for thirty years odd, and yes, you'd probably cuss a bit too. Stereotyping for a sec, because this is an open forum, I'd say a patient like this is unlikely to ever contribute to society in a financial sense enough, to pay back the cost of the medical expenses put into her. When that's PRIMARILY due to her lifestyle, as a doctor that'd be frustrating.

@ J #123

Read this story under the herald, it says there that she hasnt been able to stick to diets. So your argument is goooone.

@ Jeremy... scariest comment on here! You do know that TV medical shows AREN'T real?

Good on the Doctor! We have done this to ourselves, people who need the truth, soon use the complaint process when they hear it!

Its not a disease...

If anyone was sanctimonious enough to utter "I prefer lifestyle to diet..." after having a few too many tubs of Icecream, well, I'd say the same. True words spoken from the Heart.

And why does everyone think that it's a case towards those that are obese? I used to be overweight but the issue here is the doc told the truth in a horrible manner to a client that would not listen. He over reacted.. so what! Sometimes truth hurts. I agree with Paul #135!

Why the excessive PC attitude towards people who are just FAT? What next, the state funding gastric bypass operations?

I would welcome going to a doctor like this, at least you would know the facts. As for wanting it called a lifestyle as opposed to a diet... get real, I think people are starting to miss the bigger picture here!!

Good on him I say. Have we all become so P.C concious, that our Doctors can't even tell us the truth in a manner which might have some impact? I imagine that he has become particularly frustrated with a patient who has it within her power to affect her own health but is unwilling to do so and instead is taking her frustrations out on the system and her poor Doc. She needs physiciatric help more than the knife!