School of Reprimand .. Are you ready for the doctor's insults?

Farida Ahmed

With all your will, you go to a nutritional physician to lose weight in a healthy way, and with your first failure to follow the diet in a periodic follow-up, you find it verbally insulting and insulting you with the greatest amount of insulting words, and before you wake up from your astonishment, you discover that this is the proven treatment method to ensure positive results, and you find Yourself is among dozens of cases he treats in the same way, and you go next time to make sure his treatment style is positive.

Verbal Violence Therapy is a school for some doctors, dietitians, and weight-loss professionals. For them, the disease is one, which is "insatiable", and treatment is one, which is "undermining dignity" until the patient closes his mouth and stops eating.

Close your mouth or else ..
In Heliopolis, one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in Cairo, the clinic of a well-known and well-known "nutritionist" is crowded with a schedule full of new visits only after a full month of requesting the visit at the best estimate, and the positive results that appear on his patients, usually, motivate many To visit him despite his "profanity" words.

Wissam Hussein, a girl in her early thirties, says she went to the doctor weighing 85 kilograms and after eight months she lost 22 kilograms.

Wissam stresses that it was the doctor’s style that encouraged her to lose her weight, explaining, “My fear of insult made me stick to the weekly regimen he had determined, although I tried with three former doctors and I never complied, and I was restoring the weight I lost.”

The doctor’s philosophy relies on reprimanding the patient so that he feels embarrassed and abides by the instructions, and for this a number of patients meet between 5 and 6 people in his office, each of them weighs himself in front of him, and in embarrassment, the group is mixed with men and women, and the doctor begins to reprimand those who did not He weighed it, describing it as "the cow" or "buffalo".

"My weight was 75 kilograms, and after 9 months it was 54 kilograms," said Reham Ahmed, 26, "and if it wasn't for the rude doctor's way, I wouldn't have lost all that weight." She added, "He insulted me twice for not sticking to the system, and he described me as the cow that devoured the weeds. There were other men and women with me in the room, that I even cried and did not sympathize with me, and at the same moment I decided that I would not return again. "

Reham retracted her decision after I reconciled with the idea that "the doctor insults me in my best interest until I lose my weight much better than insulting my family and those around me and mocking me of my extra weight without real help."

The doctor’s philosophy, which worked and is still with many who are flocking to his clinic for 6 days a week, from four in the afternoon until eleven in the evening, has not been accepted by Mrs. Magda Mahmoud, 48 years old.

"I heard about him that he is a successful and well-known doctor and all his patients lost their weight, which motivated me to visit him, I lost 4 kilograms in the first consultation, and I lost 2 kilograms in the second consultation, and in the third I lost only half a kilogram, so he started scolding me and talking to me in a market way, I answered him Insulting the same and told him that I do not have the honor to deal with a market physician like him and I went out of his clinic and did not go there again. "

An old, renewed approach
The method used in some nutrition clinics is not completely new. In the early nineties, Iman Hafez and her mother went to a nutritionist in a Cairo neighborhood after the orthopedic doctor advised her to lose weight and the doctor nominated her.

"It was the first time we heard about slimming doctors, and my mother was very overweight, which caused her orthopedic diseases, heart and high pressure, and we were surprised by the young doctor talking sharply about the dangers of excess weight and the need to reduce it, and he deliberately used a strong tone of voice and warnings that seemed offensive, which is what He made my mother abide by his instructions despite her love for food, and the time she did not abide, he spoke to her violently and almost rebuked.

"I was surprised that my mother did not stop him alone, and when I asked her, she said that he was the only person who was able to help her, even against her will, to lose weight, and indeed she lost her weight and continued to maintain it for years until she died."

Adverse negative stimulation
Dr. Ahmed Saeed, a writer and psychiatrist, says that this method is called "stimulation therapy", explaining that it is a new method followed in weight loss clinics, and it is very similar to cruelty therapy, a method that many parents follow with their children, teachers with students and trainer with trainees from In order to achieve the patient's personal interest, as he put it.

Saeed believes that this method does not produce positive results in the long term, despite the fact that many submit to it and achieve positive results, its bad effect appears in the long term in the form of a greater and worse setback, whether with children or students or overweight people who regain lost weight and perhaps more, He said, "Indications have proven that many people who lost weight after undergoing verbal violence from a doctor acquired those weights again."

Saeed explains the patient’s response to this method that there is a societal burden and a stigma that falls on him that causes him to exert a double effort for fear of insult and cruelty so his physical results are good, especially as he grew up that the father and the teacher are harsh on him for his benefit, so there is no objection that the doctor hardens on him for his benefit as well, but Saeed He warns that the long-term effect is very bad physically and psychologically.