title: Telling patients they are overweight or obese: an insult or an effective intervention?: comment on "The influence of physician acknowledgment of patients' weight status on patient perceptions of overweight and obesity in the United States".
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 94143-0474, USA. baron@medicine.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Robert B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Baron
mesh_terms: D001835:Body Weight; D003142:Communication; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D050177:Overweight / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010465:Perception; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014481:United States