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.
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.
“This was when my immigrant parents had just arrived in the US and were working at 7-Eleven. We slept on the floor because we could not afford mattresses.
“Highly processed carbohydrates were tasty, cheap and in abundance.”
