There’s been growing concern over the presented A.A.P. guidelines, which include recommendations for bariatric surgery on children as young as 12, from people who feel that they amount to bullying.
Little more than a sentence in the A.A.P. report is dedicated to the responsibility that medical providers have to their larger-bodied patients. Most of the recommendations rely on interventions with individual children and adolescents. Among those interventions are bariatric surgery, a procedure that carries
according to a quote given to the New York Times by Dr. Katy Miller, the medical director of adolescent medicine at Children’s Minnesota.decreased access to preventive medical care . Weight discrimination is currently legal in almost every state in the country. Consequently weight is not a protected category the way that race, gender, or disability status are. If weight discrimination laws did exist, it would be difficult to imagine the existence of these A.A.P. guidelines, which rely upon the differential treatment of patients on the basis of size.
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