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Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the Nursing Show podcast for nurses, by nurses. I’m your host Jamie Davis and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for checking out the show this week. I have nurse practitioner and obesity treatment expert Dr. Angie Golden on the show this week to talk about how we communicate and treat obese patients who present to us in the clinical setting. We’ll have that and more later in this episode.
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Tip Segment:
A shocking fat-shaming incident took place on social media between doctors following the Obesity Week conference last month – of all places.  An obesity doc took to twitter to ‘fat shame’ two prestigious obesity researchers, and keynote speakers at the conference. As healthcare professionals, it is incumbent on nurses and others in the healthcare field to understand our own obesity bias both conscious and the more difficult to identify intrinsic biases towards obese people. I have nurse practitioner and obesity specialist, Angie Golden on to talk about it with me. Dr. Angie Golden owns her own practice in Munds Park, Arizona. She received her Doctor in Nursing Practice from Arizona State University in Phoenix, with an emphasis in evidence-based practice and health policy. She has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters and is the author/editor of the “Shaping Policy, Improving Practice” column in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Check out my interview with Angie coming up next.
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