Doctors dismissed her, but she turned out to be right after years of needless suffering

[conuly]

Surprise, surprise, she was overweight, therefore, various doctors insisted the answer to all her problems was to lose weight.

There's a million more patients with stories just like this. Whenever you hear somebody confidently and disdainfully assert that you can't be healthy if you're overweight because "it's just facts" that "science proves" that being overweight increases your risk of serious illness leading to death, ask yourself if that person has adequately accounted for medical bias.

I'm not saying that being overweight isn't a risk factor for early death - but how big is it really? The answer is unknowable until we weed out this sort of nonsense from medicine.

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[greghousesgf]

I went through something very similar several years ago when I was in really bad abdominal pain for a year which kept getting misdiagnosed. Turns out I had a tumor on my ovary the size of a damn melon. I'm just glad it wasn't cancer.