PRACTISE what you PREACH?

摘要

Research suggests that patients are less likely to accept weight-loss advice from an overweight or obese health practitioner. So should we be taking more of our own advice as a profession, or is it more complex than that? In the spring of 2013, alarming reports appeared in the press of a health crisis in the NHS. 'Half of the NHS workforce is obese/ claimed the Royal College of Physicians (RCP, 2013). Soul-searching opinion pieces followed on the state of our health service and the nation's health. Dig a little deeper and the picture is not so simple.