News & Events: Physician Attitudes

The New York Times, reporting on a study by Johns Hopkins researchers, reports on the attittude of some doctors toward overweight patients: Are doctors nicer to patients who aren't fat? A provocative new study suggests that they are — that thin patients are treated with more warmth and empathy than those who are overweight or obese. For the study, published in the medical journal Obesity, researchers at Johns Hopkins obtained permission to record discussions between 39 primary care doctors and more than 200 patients who had high blood pressure. Although patients were there to talk about [...]