Patients Are Hardly Too Thin or Too Rich
Doctors' Preventive Medicine Duties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15744366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry S Perkins (The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 750-755 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The AMA Journal of Ethic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2376-6980 • E-ISSN: 2376-6980 |
| Publisher | American Medical Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1001/virtualmentor.2008.10.11.msoc1-0811 |
| PMID | 23211891 |
| OpenAlex | W2310866912 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
famously quipped, "You can never be too thin or too rich." Her comment comes to me occasionally as I care for patients at a publicly funded, inner-city clinic in San Antonio, Texas-one of the poorest, most obese cities in the country. All my patients are poor, and most suffer obesity-related diseases-especially diabetes, hypertension, and osteoarthritis. One patient I care for is a middle-aged woman with uncontrolled diabetes who is overweight. She recently quit her house-cleaning jobs due to painful foot neuropathies and now lives on her husband's small Social Security check. Another patient is an intermittently employed used-car salesman who weighs 400 pounds, eats a steady diet of fast foods, and has hypertension. A third patient is a cook who is morbidly obese and has painful, unstable osteoarthritic knees that limit her ability to work. She wants bariatric surgery but cannot afford it
Business · Family medicine · Preventive healthcare · Public health · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Nursing · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |