Oh, for God's sake!
Today's news brings us the story that a fat woman has complained to the New Hampshire State Board of Medicine that a medical doctor she was seeing called her fat. The case ended up being "investigated" by the state's Attorney General, and board member Kevin Costin is on the record as saying, "Physicians have to be professional with patients and remember everyone is an individual. You should not be inflammatory or degrading to anyone."
What a bunch of woosies! Not only is the woman fat, but she's a crybaby, too.
Other fat -- yes, I'll keep using the word, thank you very much -- patients of Dr. Terry Bennett have come to his defense. One patient, Mindy Haney, told a TV reporter, "What really makes me angry is he told the truth." "How can you punish somebody for that?"
Haney said Bennett has helped her lose more than 150 pounds, but acknowledged that the initially didn't want to listen.
"I have been in this lady's shoes. I've been angry and left his practice. I mean, in-my-car-taking-off angry," Haney said. "But once you think about it, you're angry at yourself, not Doctor Bennett. He's the messenger. He's telling you what you already know."
In our politically correct world, I wouldn't doubt that soon we'll be expected to refer to the word "fat" as the "f-word." Oh, wait -- we already have an f-word.
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