kittyit:

cesoirvert:

17 year old girl goes to Kaiser doctor with severe back pain. Doctor tells her she’s simply too fat and refuses to provide CT, refers girl to nutritionist. Three months later, girl’s leg, half her pelvis, and part of her spine are amputated because back pain was actually due to fast-growing tumor. Kaiser exec says doctor acted appropriately.

she was 5′ 4″ and 125 pounds.. so they were going by her bmi but she probably wasn’t visibly fat/thought of by fat by everyone who saw
her?? this shows medically sanctioned & societally accepted sizeism hurts (and kills) thin/small people too.. maybe ya’ll will start thinking about it!