1. Doctors are not immune from the society that they live in. Our culture consistently demeans and devalues people who are fat, therefore many doctors are highly influenced by the bias that they were raised with. Getting a degree does not eliminate your ability to stereotype people.

This is called attribution - We look at a person and make instant assumptions about them based only on appearance.

There have been many, many studies in recent years that identify huge percentages of doctors as bigots. Everything from age to race, gender to weight has the potential to negatively influence the way that a doctor views your medical charts, leading to large numbers of misdiagnoses. This is a barrier in medical care right now. It is a problem that is recognized by the medical community.

2. Doctors have access to information that you do not. They have the ability to view a patient’s medical record, their family’s medical history, medical test results and the patient’s concerns. You, even if you intimately know another person and have multiple medical degrees, are not in a position where you can make a diagnosis about their health or advocate for specific medical action. It is not your place to judge the health of anyone, especially a hypothetical complete stranger.

3. Not all doctors inherently advocate weight loss. There will never be a point in time where every single doctor will tell every single obese patient that they need to lose weight. Your question is an attempt at creating a blanket statement and it is full of assumptions. You need to recognize that “doctors” are all different people with different patients and different ways of managing their practices.

4. Why the hell does it even matter? Are you a doctor? Is there a morbidly obese person in your life who is asking you to give them a physical exam and diagnosis? If the answer is “no,” then guess what deary: You’re derailing. You want to continue disrespecting fat people, therefore you are scrambling around to find justifications of your behavior.

No matter how other people behave: You do not have the right to devalue a person just because of their weight. You do not have the right to instruct another person to lose weight, just because you want them to. You have no excuse. Looking around and saying “But other people do it!” is nothing more than the reasoning of a 5 year old.