Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
What?s in a name? If, as Juliet would have us believe, ?that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?, then surely an obese person will be just as fat regardless of what we call them.
But in these times of delicate sensibilities, doctors are now being advised to think of alternative ways of telling people they are overweight. According to draft (or should that be daft?) guidelines announced last week by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), the term obese is now prohibited for fear that larger patients might be offended by it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ors-have-the-right-to-use-the-word-obese.html
But in these times of delicate sensibilities, doctors are now being advised to think of alternative ways of telling people they are overweight. According to draft (or should that be daft?) guidelines announced last week by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), the term obese is now prohibited for fear that larger patients might be offended by it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ors-have-the-right-to-use-the-word-obese.html