A couple friend's of mine took his daughter for a well visit, her pediatrician took a look at her and flat out told her she was fat....FAT!! Not a bit overweight, she plainly called her FAT! And made that poor girl cry and she is 8yrs old for God's sake!!
The dr wanted to put her through all these blood tests and God knows what else to discard diabetes and high blood pressure and other life threatening illnesses...C'mon!! She is a perfectly healthy a bit chubby 8 year old girl. The mother told the dr that she was being insensitive saying all that in front of the kid and the father told her to F*#$& off.
He is looking for a different pediatrician (I even gave him the number of mine) and thinking of suing her (yes, the pediatrician is a woman) which I think it would be the right way to go. The kid is so hurt she wants to go on diets and have those slim shakes, you would think the dr being a woman would be more careful on not causing a complex on a little girl.
Shame on that dr!!
UPDATE: So they took her to a different dr. She is just a couple of pounds over her weight which the dr said it is not a big deal considering she is tall for her age but offered the parents the advice of giving her smaller portions if they were concerned about her becoming seriously overweight, which they were already doing since the previous incident.
wow! That's horrible! Poor little girl.
I went through a similar experience with my 2 year old an her pediatrician. He told me Emma was 2 lbs overweight! LMAO!!! I laughed in his face. The average 2 year old is 35"-37" tall!! Mine is 39"! She's proportionate. She's at 4T in jeans and dressses, but can fit into a 2T shorts or tshirts because she's thin.
Quoting LMJ1:wow! That's horrible! Poor little girl.
I went through a similar experience with my 2 year old an her pediatrician. He told me Emma was 2 lbs overweight! LMAO!!! I laughed in his face. The average 2 year old is 35"-37" tall!! Mine is 39"! She's proportionate. She's at 4T in jeans and dressses, but can fit into a 2T shorts or tshirts because she's thin.
My son is heavy for his age but he looks thin and he has always been like that and his pediatrician has no problem with that. At this day and age when young girls are so affected by body image and these doctors are so insensitive.
Awww poor girl. . . hopefully a doc will understand what's going on.
who speaks Spanish fluently?
- karladiego
on Jul. 12, 2012 at 7:51 PM