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 Janyce Johnstone
A1 Cherie Herredsberg
A1 Les Lacy
A1 Peg Bayles
A1 Lynn Dierking
A1 Arla Houck
A1 Margaret Kilpatrick
A1 Luanne Kramer
A1 Karen Mason
A1 Carla Mendez
A1 Frank Schrotberger
A1 Christie Befort
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.