https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13351967/UCLA-medical-school-fat-pride-obesity-condemned-Harvard-doctor.html

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UCLA medical school had been condemned by a renowned Harvard doctor for forcing students to take a 'fat-positivity' class.


All first year medical students at UCLA are required to read an essay by Marquisele Mercedes, a self-proclaimed 'fat liberationist' who claims that 'fatphobia is medicine's status quo' and that weight loss is a 'hopeless endeavor.'

Mercedes's article, titled 'No Health, No Care: The Big Fat Loophole in the Hippocratic Oath,' is on the required reading list for the mandatory Structural Racism and Health Equity course.

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"Fat liberationist" required from a fat ass is definitely I look for from my doctor.


All first year medical students at UCLA are required to read an essay by Marquisele Mercedes (pictured), a self-proclaimed 'fat liberationist' who claims that 'fatphobia is medicine's status quo' and that weight loss is a 'hopeless endeavor'

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Jeffrey Flier, the former dean of Harvard Medical School and one of the world's foremost experts on obesity, slammed the course and said the curriculum 'promotes extensive and dangerous misinformation.'

UCLA 'has centered this required course on a socialist/Marxist ideology that is totally inappropriate,' said Flier. 'As a longstanding medical educator, I found this course truly shocking.'

The essay by Mercedes details how weight has come to be 'pathologized and medicalized in racialized terms.'

She offers guidance on 'resisting entrenched fat oppression,' according to the course syllabus.

Mercedes claims that 'ob*sity' is a slur 'used to exact violence on fat people' - particularly 'Black, disabled, trans, poor fat people.'

'This is a profoundly misguided view of obesity, a complex medical disorder with major adverse health consequences for all racial and ethnic groups,' Flier said -adding that teaching these 'ignorant' ideas to medical students is 'malpractice'.


She uses her social media account to voice more of her 'fat-positivity' activism.

'It's so f***ing isolating to be a disabled Black fat person working towards individual and collective liberation,' she wrote in an Instagram post - adding that being fat is a disability.

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Fat Fonzi definitely jumped the shark on this one. Obesity is a slur and 'Fight the Power' now is limiting buffet visits.

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She has also led presentations on how does 'anti-fatness show up in the work you do' - which she says includes using 'fear-mongering language in order to encourage healthy eating and physical activity.'


Mercedes also taught students in a public health seminar that 'fat people are forced to contend with anti-fatness every day in every domain across the lifespan.'

She says that 'making the decision to engage with healthcare for fat people often means making the decision to likely put yourself in harm's way.'

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Encouraged to exercise and to at least eat a salad puts you in harm's way. That has to be up their with the Normandy invasion and first responders.

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Mercedes has also received a fair share of backlash - and Flier is not the only expert to slam UCLA for including her ideas in the course curriculum.

Nicholas Christakis is a sociologist who has spent decades providing medical care to underserved communities - including in the South Side of Chicago.

He has called the curriculum 'nonsensical' and says that the course is 'embarrassing to UCLA.'

First-year UCLA medical students were also forced to sit through a bizarre lecture by a pro-Hamas activist who made them pray to 'mama Earth' while a faculty member sought to identify one student who refused to participate.

Lisa Gray-Garcia gave the two-hour presentation at Geffen Hall, on the university's downtown campus on March 27.

The lecture was a mandatory part of the Structural Racism and Health Equity class administered by pediatrician Lindsay Wells.

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Just wow, this is like 'Idiocracy 2' in real life. I think I'd take my chances with leeches over any doctor that graduated in 2020 or later. Being a fat ass is now normal, a disability and a microaggression if you call them out.

We've become an ignorant third world ****hole. All I can do is laugh now.

it should 100% be acceptable to shame and hate on fatties. in fact, it should be everyone's civic duty.

because by doing so, you are doing them a favor by pointing out how fat they are, and how they should eat a salad, then put the fork down, and go for a long walk. it is obvious they won't do it themselves without the negative motivation.

fat is unhealthy.

fat is expensive. in food costs, in medical costs.

and no one wants to sit next to fatties on planes, the subway, at the conference room tables, etc.


Ban fatties.

Everywhere.

More fat = more pills, more procedures, more visits, and more money

Hope these future doctors remember the lessons learned with this required class when obesity is literally killing their patients and making everything - and I do mean everything - more difficult to treat. There are no words to describe how irresponsible this position on patient weight is.

Can we stop with this insane experiment of "What if we left psycho leftist cat ladies run society"