[Sassy boy on crutches wearing a shirt that reads “SORRY MIND CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE”] Fourteen-year-old Kaleb Provis had to undergo emergency surgery because of an infection in his knee after a doctor initially told him the pain was possibly caused by his “morbid obesity”. The infection could have been cured with antibiotics if picked up earlier. “If it wasn’t treated a nurse said his bones would start breaking,” his mother said Fatness has dangerous implications for your health because of doctors’ fat discrimination. Fat does not mean unhealthy.

[Sassy boy on crutches wearing a shirt that reads “SORRY MIND CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE”]

Fourteen-year-old Kaleb Provis had to undergo emergency surgery because of an infection in his knee after a doctor initially told him the pain was possibly caused by his “morbid obesity”.

The infection could have been cured with antibiotics if picked up earlier.

“If it wasn’t treated a nurse said his bones would start breaking,” his mother said

Fatness has dangerous implications for your health because of doctors’ fat discrimination.

Fat does not mean unhealthy.

Mar. 4 2013
Via stuff.co.nz
#thisisthinprivilege #fat discrimination #stuff.co.nz #new zealand #Kaleb Provis #fatness #body positive #blog
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