Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don’t See Past the Fat

One in three Americans is obese, a rate that has been steadily growing for more than two decades, but the health care system — in its attitudes, equipment and common practices — is ill prepared, and its practitioners are often unwilling, to treat the rising population of fat patients.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/health/obese-patients-health-care.html?smid=tw-share&_r=2