PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Johnstone, Janyce
AU  - Herredsberg, Cherie
AU  - Lacy, Les
AU  - Bayles, Peg
AU  - Dierking, Lynn
AU  - Houck, Arla
AU  - Kilpatrick, Margaret
AU  - Kramer, Luanne
AU  - Mason, Karen
AU  - Mendez, Carla
AU  - Schrotberger, Frank
AU  - Befort, Christie
TI  - What I Wish My Doctor Really Knew: The Voices of Patients With Obesity
AID  - 10.1370/afm.2494
DP  - 2020 Mar 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 169--171
VI  - 18
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/18/2/169.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/18/2/169.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2020 Mar 01; 18
AB  - Few health care professionals receive comprehensive training in how to effectively help their patients with obesity. Yet patients are often wanting, needing, and looking for help when they go to the doctor. We, as a group of patients with obesity, share our common experiences and needs when going to the doctor from a place of honesty and hope, with the assumption that clinicians want to know what their patients really think and feel. Our “wish list” for a treatment plan may represent an ideal, but our hope is that our language will speak to clinicians about how they can help their patients manage their obesity.