Beyond Change

For those of us who work in the business of treating the morbidly obese there are “those days”. Days when you feel that no matter what instructions you give, no matter how much you do and no matter how much you care, there is resistance. There are days when it may take just one individual to turn the atmosphere of the whole office and hospital into a state of turmoil. On “those days” you daydream about what you should have been when you grew up and know that it would be any other profession than this. “Those days” recently turned into weeks in our office with just one resistant patient. The stress has only been tempered by all of us thinking about what we could be doing with our lives a