Willing To Be Wrong

In this episode, I get to have a conversation with Amanda Lee, who is an actress, singer and photographer who went viral last month after she posted an incredibly emotional video after experiencing weight stigma from her doctor.

Show Notes

TW: weight stigma

In this episode, I get to have a conversation with Amanda Lee, who is an actress, singer and photographer who went viral last month after she posted an incredibly emotional video online about her experience of medical weight stigma. After telling her doctor that she hadn't been able to eat because of how much pain she'd been experiencing, he turned to her and said, "maybe that's not such a bad thing". She has since been able to find a doctor who's been investigating her symptoms properly and found them to be a result of colon cancer. This was an unknown diagnosis at the time of recording.

I want to thank Amanda for being so generous with her time and talking to me at what was 6am for her (!). Please do send her messages of support on social media (@mandapaints) over the coming weeks as she prepares to (in her words) kick the ass out of her ass cancer!

p.s. private healthcare is ridiculously expensive, do help her out if you can: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rhktx-help-amanda-kick-cancers-ass

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My debut book, Food Isn't Medicine: Challenge Nutribollocks & Escape The Diet Trap, is now available for pre-order online (Amazon, Book Depository, and elsewhere). Do come and join me on social media @drjoshuawolrich.

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What is Willing To Be Wrong?

Fancy being wrong about something? That's a rhetorical question, of course, you don't... no one does. The thing is, once the initial discomfort has passed, it's truly the best way way to grow as a human being.

Welcome to Willing To Be Wrong, a podcast with the intention of doing just that. My name is Dr Joshua Wolrich and I'm an NHS surgical doctor, nutrition MSc student, author and accidental influencer. Like all healthcare professionals, I was taught by a system that practises medicine in a weight-normative manner, where a focus on body weight is used to try and define health and wellbeing. After internalising the weight stigma I'd been subject to for years, I left medical school believing that I couldn't be a good doctor if I were fat, prompting further disordered eating and a damaged relationship with food.

After a difficult couple of years of being challenged on my beliefs by people far cleverer than me, I now believe that healthcare has to become weight-inclusive if we're ever going to change the massive problem of weight stigma and the both direct and indirect harm it does to patients. Join me as I talk to guests about a wide range of topics from the complex nature of weight and health (and why neither should be treated as a personal responsibility), to nutribollocks such as 'celery juice detoxifies your liver' and why it's utter bullshit. The guests aren't all experts (as that wouldn't be fun) and the questions are rarely pre-prepared, but true conversations tend not to be.

My debut book, Food Isn't Medicine: Challenge Nutribollocks & Escape The Diet Trap, is now available for pre-order online on Amazon, Book Depository, and elsewhere. For more information, you can find me on social media @drjoshuawolrich.