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Article Commentary: Physician Obesity: The Tipping Point

2014; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 3; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7453/gahmj.2014.061

2164-957X

Katherine Gergen Barnett, Jennifer Blair,

Child and Adolescent Health

As I bike through the early morning stxreets of Boston, my mind is awake, and my body feels strong. Ahead, I see the hospital where I work. Its pedestrian bridge spans a large urban street, and the brick of this building is deeply familiar to me as it has surrounded and greeted me on countless mornings and nights—first through my residency and now during my time as an attending physician. Already my mind has started to drift from the morning race of getting my three children to school to the dozens of chronically ill patients on my schedule, the medical students and residents with whom I have the good fortune to be teaching, and the multiple calls and meetings in the course of the day. All thoughts stop in the next moment when I feel a gale-like wind tipping my bike and with it, me, over. Fear washes over me. And then, as quickly as it had surged up, the gale force passes, and I am left unharmed. Looking up, I see a city bus filled with passengers (likely some are even my patients) unaware of their proxim...