From The New York Times:
Until she was in her mid-30s, Xanthia Walker rarely went to the doctor, even when she needed care. She didn’t want to step on the scale.
When she did go in — to treat sciatic nerve pain or get antibiotics — somehow the conversation always turned to her weight. “Even when I went in about migraines, the response was, ‘Well, if you lost weight that would probably go away,’” she recalled. That changed when Ms. Walker, 40, who lives in Phoenix, found a new physician. Dr. Natasha Bhuyan rejects what she calls the “weight-centric” model of medicine.