Your Thoughts Re: Does Obama’s Pick for Surgeon General Weigh too Much to Be Nation’s Top Doctor?
Does Obama’s Pick for Surgeon General Weigh too Much to Be Nation’s Top Doctor?
… or Is There Weight Discrimination at Work?
(Taylor Media Services) When President Obama selected Dr. Regina Benjamin to be Surgeon General, the nomination was widely praised. Benjamin has a stellar record as a doctor; she is a winner of the MacArthur Foundation’s so-called genius award and she is a hero to many poor people in Alabama where she set up a life-saving clinic after Hurricane Katrina struck the area in 2005.
However, last week Benjamin began running into criticism. The reason: the 52-year-old Black woman is somewhat overweight - possibly by 30 to 40 pounds. Critics blogging on the Internet allege she presents the wrong image as the nation’s top doctor and were suggesting that she not be confirmed by the Senate because of her extra pounds.
Even Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the distinguished New England Journal of Medicine, charged that Benjamin’s weight “tends to undermine her credibility.” Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services defended Obama’s selection last week saying, “Dr. Benjamin is a highly qualified physician who has dedicated her life to providing care to her patients. She is a role model for all of us.”
[A study released last week by the Centers for Disease Control found that African American women are more likely to be overweight than other segments of the population. Could the uproar over Benjamin’s weight constitute the beginning of a new form of discrimination? Email your views to TaylorMediaPrime@yahoo.com .]
{The Conservatives are probably up to their "dirty tricks" again as they were with Sotomayor being confirmed. Do they not have any SHAME?!}
Also See Link below to article "Body Fat Measurements Overestimate Fatness In Blacks"
http://blackdoctor.org/articles.aspx?count...
… or Is There Weight Discrimination at Work?
(Taylor Media Services) When President Obama selected Dr. Regina Benjamin to be Surgeon General, the nomination was widely praised. Benjamin has a stellar record as a doctor; she is a winner of the MacArthur Foundation’s so-called genius award and she is a hero to many poor people in Alabama where she set up a life-saving clinic after Hurricane Katrina struck the area in 2005.
However, last week Benjamin began running into criticism. The reason: the 52-year-old Black woman is somewhat overweight - possibly by 30 to 40 pounds. Critics blogging on the Internet allege she presents the wrong image as the nation’s top doctor and were suggesting that she not be confirmed by the Senate because of her extra pounds.
Even Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the distinguished New England Journal of Medicine, charged that Benjamin’s weight “tends to undermine her credibility.” Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services defended Obama’s selection last week saying, “Dr. Benjamin is a highly qualified physician who has dedicated her life to providing care to her patients. She is a role model for all of us.”
[A study released last week by the Centers for Disease Control found that African American women are more likely to be overweight than other segments of the population. Could the uproar over Benjamin’s weight constitute the beginning of a new form of discrimination? Email your views to TaylorMediaPrime@yahoo.com .]
{The Conservatives are probably up to their "dirty tricks" again as they were with Sotomayor being confirmed. Do they not have any SHAME?!}
Also See Link below to article "Body Fat Measurements Overestimate Fatness In Blacks"
http://blackdoctor.org/articles.aspx?count...
not bad for a BIA woman, big for a WIA woman.