Unfortunately, this often applies to both male AND female physicians.

I remember one of the physicians I worked with was about 4 feet 11 inches, 85 pounds, never smoked, drank or did anything else that might ever be deemed by the Surgeon General to be possibly bad.

She would lecture her female patients about how they had to lose weight, blah, blah, blah and they would just sit there and look at her like I did. Silently thinking "What the heck do you even think you could know about losing weight?"

There are many such instances when women go to their doctor for "help". We'll explore them here.

Terrie