RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 What I Wish My Doctor Really Knew: The Voices of Patients With Obesity
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 169
OP 171
DO 10.1370/afm.2494
VO 18
IS 2
A1 Johnstone, Janyce
A1 Herredsberg, Cherie
A1 Lacy, Les
A1 Bayles, Peg
A1 Dierking, Lynn
A1 Houck, Arla
A1 Kilpatrick, Margaret
A1 Kramer, Luanne
A1 Mason, Karen
A1 Mendez, Carla
A1 Schrotberger, Frank
A1 Befort, Christie
YR 2020
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/18/2/169.abstract
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.