You are a healthcare professional who provides care directly to patients (pick which kind you want...

You are a healthcare professional who provides care directly to patients (pick which kind you want to be based on your readings from this module). You feel very confident that the medical care you provide is extremely important to your patients and to the U.S. healthcare system but you also know that there are many kinds of care and care providers. You like to think of yourself as open-minded about other providers of care, particularly because there are many kinds of patients and different people need different kinds of care and treatment. You read a back issue of O Magazine (August 2004, to be precise), and come across the following quote from Oprah: “Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.” How does this fit with your own philosophy of medicine and, if many other people were to take Oprah’s perspective, would that be a good thing or a bad thing for our healthcare system?

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There are a lot of medical related factors which may not be linked to the psychological state of body image.

Obesity for a very long time has resulted in a state of lack of self esteem and confidence.

The fight to be satisfied in the set body type plays a very important role in everyday life.

The feeling of acceptance is important for individuals growth and development.

Creating and uplifting confidence with respect to body imagine may help develop a better body shaping. There has been a large threshold regarding the debate about self acceptance of obesity along with medical theories and its effects.

Medically obesity does effect the normal physiological functioning and may hence have a drastic health related changes.

But medical advice recognizes a professional behavior of respect and kindness in adressing various weight related issues but on the same hand it does not encourage body shaming.

Loving your body with no shame is the game along with medical preferences.

Cause health is a state of physical mental and emotional well being.

Hence considering all these factors plays a very important role in patient safety.

Nightingale answered 1 year ago

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