Although we used to be able to say "obese patient" until it got declared an illness, so now it has to be "patient with obesity."
When did it get declared an illness? I was unaware of that. It's a good thing, maybe doctors will start taking us seriously instead of blaming all of fat patients' problems on them being fat. Can I make jokes about calling in fat? Sorry, can't work today, I'm obese. No, I'll probably be obese tomorrow too. Maybe Friday.
Although we used to be able to say "obese patient" until it got declared an illness, so now it has to be "patient with obesity."
When did it get declared an illness?
In 2013. ("I can't come in to work; I caught a case of the fat!")
My relapsing and remitting fat should be remitting aaaaaany minute now.
I have treatment-resistant chub.
Laura, that is really sad. I'm so sorry.
Nothing to add to disability language discussion, but as always am I terested and happy to learn more. And you people are cracking me the fuck up, so thanks for that. I worked almost 50 hours in four days (including 3 hr daily commute) and I am fucking wiped.
I am awake. I should be asleep. I am not tired. I was tired around 10 pm. I just need to turn off the lights and lay down and stop watching stupid videos and stuff.
Is this when they started saying that the patient has overweight? Because that drives me crazy!
the patient has overweight
Oh, I've never heard that. That would make me side-eye a doctor hard.
the patient has overweight
We don't phrase it that way in our articles. We still use "overweight" as an adjective, although we usually talk about it in terms of BMI (despite that being bullshit on the individual level).
First, Happy Birthday Erika!
The medical charts I see list obesity as a diagnosis pretty often. Fairly certain mine does too.
Laura, that is really sad. I'm so sorry.
Thanks all. It is bugging me on a lot of levels. He was a close friend and here he was living in Key West and I didn't even know it. He clearly had friends that cared. It was a law enforcement Wellness Check requested by a friend that discovered him. I know it didn't really have to do with Obama and that he was sick, but it hurts on another level that an election that brought me joy brought my friend such lethal distress. Of course I wonder in some back corner of my mind if I could have helped, but I know it is unlikely. Blah. A reminder to always take people mentioning suicide seriously.