I've Reached a New Low

[Luke]

I have a brother in Kiwi town it seems:

Foul-mouthed surgeon blasts fat patient
February 11, 2010 - 12:42PM

A foul-mouthed New Zealand surgeon has been reprimanded after swearing at a severely obese patient.

A 44-year-old mother filed a complaint about the doctor after a tense consultation with him last year, The New Zealand Herald reports.

The doctor said f--- at least three times to the Maori woman after she told him she didn't like the word "diet" and preferred the term "lifestyle".

He told her she was, "going on a f---ing diet".

In the letter of complaint, the woman wrote: "[The doctor] said if I couldn't handle the word diet then he challenged my motivation and stated that I would never survive surgery because I was still bullshitting myself and therefore my thinking was still f---ed".

In response to the woman's concerns, the doctor said they no longer had a "therapeutic relationship" and scratched her from the gastric bypass waiting list.

New Zealand's Health and Disability Commissioner, Ron Paterson, said the doctor, who admitted using bad language, had been unprofessional and insulting.

[alienjesus]

They need doctors to do that as far as I'm concerned, it might start making these things get through to people. Not just weight issues, anything stupid and bad for your health.

[Luke]

They need doctors to do that as far as I'm concerned, it might start making these things get through to people. Not just weight issues, anything stupid and bad for your health.

Agreed, but with better delivery.

[MrPopo]

They need doctors to do that as far as I'm concerned, it might start making these things get through to people. Not just weight issues, anything stupid and bad for your health.

Agreed, but with better delivery.

Can't we just have House be required viewing for all medical professionals?

[J T]

They need doctors to do that as far as I'm concerned, it might start making these things get through to people. Not just weight issues, anything stupid and bad for your health.

[Inazuma]

Hilarious how upset people can get over the word "fuck" and think there is nothing wrong with being fat. That doctor sounds like a good guy to me. Fucking fatass needs to go on a fucking diet.

[GSZX1337]

They need doctors to do that as far as I'm concerned, it might start making these things get through to people. Not just weight issues, anything stupid and bad for your health.

Agreed, but with better delivery.

Can't we just have House be required viewing for all medical professionals?

I second this. Seriously, what's wrong with the word "diet"?

[Luke]

No joke, doesn't even always involve cutting calories, sometimes a diet includes adding them.

Might go on a liquid diet tonight *nudge nudge wink wink*

[molotovwars]

No joke, doesn't even always involve cutting calories, sometimes a diet includes adding them.

Might go on a liquid diet tonight *nudge nudge wink wink*

[GSZX1337]

No joke, doesn't even always involve cutting calories, sometimes a diet includes adding them.

There's also this definition:

food or feed habitually eaten or provided: The rabbits were fed a diet of carrots and lettuce.