Foster care before bariatric surgery? Another view

The JAMA op-ed by Drs. David Ludwig and Lindsey Murtagh in which they raised the issue of moving extremely obese children temporarily into foster care, as an alternative to bariatric surgery, has drawn comment far and wide, including by me.

This reaction, by the writer-proprietor of Dances With Fat, was worth passing on. Different from mine, but well written, well reasoned.


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