thisisableism:

[Image Description: @red3blog tweeted: Let’s be blunt. The FDA’s new “guidelines” are about denying care to fat people b/c they think our lives aren’t worth anything. Fat people’s only value to the health care industry is as a revenue generation for unproven or proven ineffective meds. That’s all we are. “Treat the weight first” when there is no safe and reliable means of doing so is just a way of saying “Don’t treat fatties at all.” They are spelling out the systematic denial of care that fat people already knew existed Because we aren’t worth even the pretense. “Treat the weight first” as if that’ not already the status quo. AS if this is not just another way to say “Yell louder at the fatties.” “We should start telling fat people to lose weight!” – Actual doctors who think this is a brilliant observation no one has through of before.”]

red3blog:

I tweeted about the new medical guidelines (maybe not officially FDA guidelines) about treating fat patients and what a monstrosity they are. They are literally codifying the denial of care for fat patients and patting themselves on the back for it. Its disgusting. Moreover, its nothing new. Just the latest in the long campaign of “yell louder:

Plus if there is an underlying condition, which there usually is, you need to act fast, and “treating the weight first” will result in tons of fat people dying from manageable conditions because they won’t be able to lose the weight before the condition kills them or leaves them in permanent pain and/or with other complications. Medical negligence is a nightmare. I pray that one day these shits lose their medical licenses.