Sadly, the answer to all of those questions is a resounding “yes”; preying on the
vulnerabilities often associated with obesity has shown itself to be a lucrative business …

Healthcare Upside Down is the title of a book I recently published (Springer). The title
describes the catastrophic current state of United States healthcare, a system in which …

Aside from health system reform, obesity is perhaps the most-discussed topic in health care
in the United States, and certainly in the American media. Healthy People 2010, a …

Boston, my mind is awake, and my body feels strong. Ahead, I see the hospital where I work.
Its pedestrian bridge spans a large urban street, and the brick of this building is deeply …

Weight stigmas are discriminatory ideologies targeted towards individuals because of size.
Medical students are not immune to bias and prejudiced treatment of patients by physicians …

At its annual meeting in June 2013, the House of Delegates of the American Medical
Association (AMA) voted to define obesity as a disease (1). In doing so, it overrode the …

This letter to the editor is in response to an editorial 1 in the March 2015 issue of The
American Journal of Medicine written by Doroghazi regarding the current approaches in the …

The article presents a list of several physicians who are members of the professional
association The Obesity Society (TOS) who have been certified in obesity medicine by the …

WHEN ASKED TO REVIEW QUIRKS OF HUMAN ANATOMY, Ian-ticipated a new book on
anatomical variations, a book that might help explain those changes from the norm …

The excitement of clinical science was first made apparent to me through the somewhat
theatrical medium of the medical 'grand round'. In the 1980s, at both Hammersmith Hospital …