Why this GP registrar spoke up about the benefits of being an obese doctor
It has positive and negative effects on his consults, he says.
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Dr Tanvir Kapoor was first diagnosed as obese at the age of 12.
“I remember a paediatrician encouraging my mum to give me more fruits and vegetables,” he wrote in a Medical Journal of Australia opinion piece this month.