#124 - Eliminating weight stigma from medical care with Jennifer Gaudiani MD, author of Sick Enough

Weight stigma is harmful to human health at all sizes. The
medical community upholds weight stigma and harms the very people
they should be helping by weighing patients without informed
consent, blaming weight on non weight related concerns like
earaches and wrist pain, and recommending weight loss based on
the unscientific BMI measurement. Medicine must work from the
inside out to eradicate the problems they have perpetuated. Dr.
Jennifer Gaudiani author of the book Sick Enough has made weight
inclusive medical care a priority at her Denver based
telemedicine clinic and she shares her ideas for why doctors must
act to eradicate weight stigma on this episode.


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About Dr Gaudiani
Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED, is the Founder and Medical
Director of the Gaudiani Clinic. Board Certified in Internal
Medicine, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard,
medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, and her
internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale.


Dr. Gaudiani has been a leader in the eating disorders field for
over 10 years and served as the Medical Director at the ACUTE
Center for Eating Disorders prior to founding the Gaudiani Clinic
which is a Denver-based outpatient medical clinic dedicated to
people with eating disorders and disordered eating. The Gaudiani
Clinic is a HAES (Health At Every Size)-informed provider and
embraces treating people of all shapes and sizes. The Gaudiani
Clinic is licensed to practice in over 25 US states via
telemedicine and offers international professional consultation
and education.


Website | Sick Enough book | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook


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