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Treat Overweight Patients With Dignity and Respect
How to help your staff empathize with heavier patients who present for surgery.
Carol Milano, Contributing Editor

Overweight patients go through many humiliations in health care, says Nancy Burden, RN, who might be uniquely qualified to know such a thing. Not only was Ms. Burden a gastric bypass patient, but also she's the director of a surgery center. Kill them with kindness and compassion, she says of the greater number of larger patients your facility is likely treating nowadays.

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