NEW YORK, Apr 13: People are less likely to trust and follow the advice of an overweight doctor, according to a new online survey that suggests “weight bias” may go both ways in the doctor-patient relationship. “There’s lots of work which shows there’s a lot of bias from health professionals toward heavy patients,” said Sara Bleich, an obesity and health policy researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. (agencies)
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