In this modern era where human rights, political correctness and “anything goes” enjoy front row seats in our human society, coupled with the ever-increasing litigious tendency among people, I am not surprised that the medical fraternity is sometimes tiptoeing around the sensitive issue of obesity. Although very anecdotal, I have found that in our Emergency Practice here at Zuid Afrikaans Hospital, this subject is rarely touched upon or sometimes, even completely ignored in the appropriate patient population.
