Woman Files Complaint After Doctor Tells Her She's ObeseWhen New Hampshire starts getting "nanny-ish" in their government, I begin to worry... After all, the state's motto is: Live Free or Die Posted by DaveH at August 23, 2005 11:11 PM
New Hampshire Doctor Outraged By Complaint
The New Hampshire attorney general is investigating a Rochester doctor because a patient complained that he bluntly told her she needed to lose weight.
Dr. Terry Bennett said that he's outraged by what he calls a baseless complaint. A patient was apparently insulted when Bennett told her that she was obese and could only get healthier by losing weight.
"It's an epidemic in the United States, and it's croaking us," Bennett said.
Bennett said that it's a lecture he gives to many of his overweight patients.
"It's your weight, ... and there's dozens of programs," Bennett said. "You don't have to come in here. You can join Jenny Craig. You can go see Weight Watchers."
Bennett said he tells obese patients that their weight is bad for their health and their love lives. But the lecture drove one patient to write a letter to the Board of Medicine, which has passed on the complaint to the Attorney General's Office.
"Did I sleep with somebody? Did I give somebody drugs? Was I careless? No. End of story," Bennett said. "That should have been the end of it."
Now, other overweight patients are coming to Bennett's defense.
"What really makes me angry is he told the truth," patient Mindy Haney said. "How can you punish somebody for that?"
The doctor was interviewed on CNN and the Today Show, and he clarified what he said. Namely, that she was too fat, and that she would not be able to find a man to date should her husband die. Very inappropriate to make that second comment, if you ask me.
Posted by: MM at January 21, 2006 7:47 PMhttp://www.freestateproject.org/
There's already an organization to return New Hampshire to its roots. ;)
(I think the guy trying to seize Justice Souter's house is a member.)
Posted by: Al at August 24, 2005 11:03 AM