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[–] 3237758? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

There's compassion, and there's "I know how you feel and I understand." Sooo... lie to them? How can you know and understand when you haven't gone through it yourself? What if they call you on your bullshit, what do you follow that up with?

As a professional, your job is to tell people the truth, deal with the problem, and do so professionally and efficiently, not tip toe around someone's fee fees. Besides, we know the fat community demands are totally conflicting and opposing. For every person who doesn't want to be called fat, there's another who demands it, and for the exact same reasons! It is best to steer clear of the mine field that is their feelings and concentrate strictly on their concrete problems in a professional and clinical manner, let them deal with their own feelings when they're hit with cold, hard, scientific facts.

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[–] thebluelady ago 

i know this probably sounds good to you, but there's really nothing that supports this in healthcare. you're trying to make someone trust and listen to you, and this is almost entirely a 'feefees' thing. anyone who works in healthcare can tell you that for every patient who responds well to the cold hard truth there's like ten who are ike, 'that sounds bad but it probably won't happen to me so i'm going to keep smoking and not taking my meds and eating like shit!'