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Eating Disorders

Why Doctors With Eating Disorders Don't Ask for Help

Karen (Ren) Manias MBChB, Ph.D. on October 3, 2020

Doctors with eating disorders often find it difficult to ask for help. Here are some of the underlying reasons for their tendency to conceal and neglect their own ill health.

Doctors with eating disorders often find it difficult to ask for help. Here are some of the underlying reasons for their tendency to conceal and neglect their own ill health.

Health

Is Fat Phobia in Medicine Harming Doctors and Patients?

Karen (Ren) Manias MBChB, Ph.D. on August 11, 2020

Part 2: Body size is not a medical diagnosis. We must examine how irrational fear of fatness and indiscriminate prescription of weight loss are damaging people's health.

Part 2: Body size is not a medical diagnosis. We must examine how irrational fear of fatness and indiscriminate prescription of weight loss are damaging people's health.

Bias

Is Fat Phobia in Medicine Harming Doctors and Patients?

Karen (Ren) Manias MBChB, Ph.D. on August 10, 2020

Part 1: Implicit weight bias is pervasive in medicine. Doctors must take a hard look at our biases to recognise the harm we may inadvertently cause to ourselves and our patients.

Part 1: Implicit weight bias is pervasive in medicine. Doctors must take a hard look at our biases to recognise the harm we may inadvertently cause to ourselves and our patients.

Eating Disorders

Is the Sick Voice of Medicine Making Doctors Ill?

Karen (Ren) Manias MBChB, Ph.D. on August 2, 2020

Traits such as perfectionism and self-discipline can contribute to success in medicine. But it is also an ideal breeding ground for eating disorders.

Traits such as perfectionism and self-discipline can contribute to success in medicine. But it is also an ideal breeding ground for eating disorders.

Health

In Sickness and in Health

Karen (Ren) Manias MBChB, Ph.D. on July 23, 2020

Sharing the story of my journey to become a doctor, and some of the insight I gained along the way.

Sharing the story of my journey to become a doctor, and some of the insight I gained along the way.

Eating Disorders

An Introduction: When Doctors Develop Eating Disorders

Karen (Ren) Manias MBChB, Ph.D. on July 21, 2020

Opening the conversation about eating disorders in the medical profession, and how they affect doctors and their patients.

Opening the conversation about eating disorders in the medical profession, and how they affect doctors and their patients.