Diet Clinic Diary: Pounds and Prejudice

The diet clinic here in Cannes, France, is part of a small sized hospital. So they can perform all kinds of check-ups and treatments to help the patients in their recovery. Here, you witness socialized preventive medicine at its best. There is nothing fancy about it, the food is simple, the exercise machines are few and old, the medical equipment would have been retired fifteen years ago at an American institution. But they provide all the basics for the program to succeed. From doctors to dietitians and physiotherapist, all are here to help the patients. Many of us overweight and obese folk, blaming ourselves for our predicament, ignore our health-- feeling we deserve punishment more than care. So this kind of program that helps you lose weight while you take care of other health issues is priceless because we, the dwellers on the extremity of the scale, have neglected ourselves for so long. Sitting in the crowded radiology waiting room for my turn to come up, to Xray my knee, reading my book, I hear that tomorrow generalist doctors are striking. This strike, which is their second one in a few months, is because a new law is making supplemental insurers pay in advance for their clients' doctors so that the patients don't have to front the 20% or 30% not covered by the French state insurance. The doctors are unhappy because the burden of getting reimbursed, for the supplemental cost, by insurers falls on them. The law was passed to make healthcare available to those who do...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news