OMG, masterful, powerful, awesome!!! Point 3 is excellent and likely to jolt people out of their diet-culture trance: "...do you think I should gain weight? Because that is the most common long-term outcome of behavioral weight-loss interventions." Thank you, Emily and Ragen!
Kudos, props, and strokes for this incredible letter! And, I may add, not surprising from a library prof (I say that as the partner and mother of librarians). Thanks for posting, Ragen!
I'm crying as I read this. And, as always, I'm saving it to a folder that will go with me to my next doctor appointment. Heaps of love and respect to Emily.
Emily is my heroine du jour! Librarians know how to ROCK! The steady pummelling of point after point, the unemotional delivery that is simultaneously passionate... Golly gee (insert expletives here)!!!! Thanks to you, Ragen, for your unending advocacy and research.
Fantastic! We need so much more of this. Every. Single. Day. Sick of the patriarchy, and discrimination, societal collusion, and cultural support which infuses this, regardless of the doctor's gender.
WOW!! Im imagining what kind of response I would give if I received such a letter -- it will rock the physician's world, I am sure, but in a good way for their patients!! Well done, brilliant, powerful. Can't wait to hear what they wrote back.
OMG, masterful, powerful, awesome!!! Point 3 is excellent and likely to jolt people out of their diet-culture trance: "...do you think I should gain weight? Because that is the most common long-term outcome of behavioral weight-loss interventions." Thank you, Emily and Ragen!
That was the chef's kiss for me!!!
I love this so hard that clicking 'like' wasn't enough. Thank you for sharing it!
SAME
I felt the exact same way. 💙💙💙💙💙💙
DAAAMMMMMMN! Well done! "Thanks to the author for allowing this to be shared. I so hope Foot Doctor read this in entirety!
Kudos, props, and strokes for this incredible letter! And, I may add, not surprising from a library prof (I say that as the partner and mother of librarians). Thanks for posting, Ragen!
Woo hoo!! I am dying to know if and how this doctor responded to Emily‘s letter. You go girl, I think you are my new hero!
I'm crying as I read this. And, as always, I'm saving it to a folder that will go with me to my next doctor appointment. Heaps of love and respect to Emily.
Emily is my heroine du jour! Librarians know how to ROCK! The steady pummelling of point after point, the unemotional delivery that is simultaneously passionate... Golly gee (insert expletives here)!!!! Thanks to you, Ragen, for your unending advocacy and research.
PS: I wonder if Emily will hear back from that fat-phobic podiatrist, if he has the cojones.
Fantastic! We need so much more of this. Every. Single. Day. Sick of the patriarchy, and discrimination, societal collusion, and cultural support which infuses this, regardless of the doctor's gender.
BRAVO!
Brilliant!! Thank you for sharing.
Amazing letter. Thanks to both of you for sharing.
WOW!! Im imagining what kind of response I would give if I received such a letter -- it will rock the physician's world, I am sure, but in a good way for their patients!! Well done, brilliant, powerful. Can't wait to hear what they wrote back.
Definitely a masterclass and, perhaps, a template of sorts. The reading list is delicious. Thank you for sharing!
Wow, this is everything I have wanted to say and more, and written so intelligently and firmly. Love, love, love!
Thanks SO much for sharing Emily and Ragen!! 💥