Let’s stop making substandard medical care a new normal. None of this is okay.

Weight is not beauty. This is a hill I will die on.

When weight impacts health, it is a medical problem. If your weight is not impacting your health, you are beautiful. Every body is beautiful. And everybody deserves qualified medical care.

When weight impacts health it is a disease. It is a medical problem associated with over 200 complications.

We need to stop normalising any conversation that discusses obesity as a cosmetic problem. Or promotes cheap medical tourism that skips key patients safey steps (a surgical package that includes VIP airport transfer is not a key indicator of quality or safety)

We need to stop treating these trending drugs or medical tourism packages like cures for a chronic disease. The drugs and surgeries have an important part to play in whole-person, evidence-based care. But we need to stop skipping steps in safe patient care – from pill mills with no in-person checks, no safety bloods, no mental health care for addiction or eating disorders. We need to stop normalising patient care that does not include checking patients for complications from their obesity, such as sleep apnoea or liver disease that can be silent and have real long-term effects on their health.

Patients deserve and need life long, ongoing competent medical care – not enrollment in a slimming club.