{"id":18928,"date":"2024-12-26T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18928"},"modified":"2024-12-26T10:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T10:22:55","slug":"in-some-doctors-offices-the-weigh-in-is-no-longer-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18928","title":{"rendered":"In Some Doctors\u2019 Offices, the Weigh-In Is No Longer Required"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It may be a longstanding practice, but critics say routine weight measurements are driving some patients away from care.<\/p>\n

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Until she was in her mid-30s, Xanthia Walker rarely went to the doctor, even when she needed care. She didn\u2019t want to step on the scale.<\/p>\n

When she did go in \u2014 to treat sciatic nerve pain or get antibiotics \u2014 somehow the conversation always turned to her weight.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when I went in about migraines, the response was, \u2018Well, if you lost weight that would probably go away,\u2019” she recalled.<\/p>\n

That changed when Ms. Walker, 40, who lives in Phoenix, found a new physician. Dr. Natasha Bhuyan rejects what she calls the \u201cweight-centric\u201d model of medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Instead, she favors a \u201cweight-inclusive\u201d approach recognizing that people come in different shapes and sizes, and that the number on the scale does not necessarily predict health status.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a person comes in, the first thing we do is not<\/em> check their weight,\u201d said Dr. Bhuyan, who is the vice president of in-office care and national medical director at One Medical, a primary care practice owned by Amazon.<\/p>\n

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It may be a longstanding practice, but critics say routine weight measurements are driving some patients away from care.Until she was in her mid-30s, Xanthia Walker rarely went to the doctor, even when she needed care. She didn\u2019t want to step on the scale.When she did go in \u2014 to treat sciatic nerve pain or get antibiotics \u2014 somehow the conversation always turned to her weight.\u201cEven when I went in about migraines, the response was, \u2018Well, if you lost weight that would probably go away,\u2019” she recalled.That changed when Ms. Walker, 40, who lives in Phoenix, found a new physician. Dr. Natasha Bhuyan rejects what she calls the \u201cweight-centric\u201d model of medicine.Instead, she favors a \u201cweight-inclusive\u201d approach recognizing that people come in different shapes and sizes, and that the number on the scale does not necessarily predict health status.\u201cWhen a person comes in, the first thing we do is not check their weight,\u201d said Dr. Bhuyan, who is the vice president of in-office care and national medical director at One Medical, a primary care practice owned by Amazon.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18930,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18931,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions\/18931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}