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Pediatric Healthcare Providers
Considering Our Professional Duty:
As healthcare providers, we all have an impact on the patients we treat.
It is our duty to ensure those experiences are helpful and not harmful.
Learn more from an expert in Adolescent Medicine:
Expert Corner: Adolescent Medicine Specialist
Meet physician, Sari Benstianov, MD.
Adolescent Medicine specialists, or physicians with specialized training in caring for teens and young adults, focus closely on physical health, mental well-being, and social development during adolescence.
Press Play to hear about Dr. Bentisanov's work with adolescents as a Specialty Pediatrician.
Press Play to hear Dr. Bentisanov's recommendations for collaborating with patients effectively.
Expert Corner: Collaboration
Research shows that people with obesity are less likely to receive adequate healthcare.
As a healthcare professional, you might find it difficult to broach the topic of weight with your patients.
Having respectful conversations with patients and providing a welcoming environment is crucial for quality patient care.
Watch the video on provider collaboration and consider what your collaboration with patient looks like. Does it need to change?
Expert Corner: Common Challenges
For Black female adolescents, challenges can arise we as Healthcare providers focus narrowly on lowering BMI or the number on the scale, view/label patients with obesity as a "problem," or fail to consider our bias and deliver care with stereotypes in mind.
In turn, adolescents are negatively influenced by social media and societal pressures to be thin which are sometimes also reinforced in the healthcare setting.
So consider this question: Am I a champion for my patient's or a challenge?
Press Play to hear Dr. Bentisanov discuss the current challenges that adolescents face in receiving weight-related healthcare.
Healthcare Provider Review / Quick Tips
Understand challenges will occur, BUT we can be prepared to face them.
Stigma in our society around people with larger bodies being "bad," so patients may be coming in with a lot of shame from stigma around being overweight, and have a poorer body image. They may also have fears associated with the healthcare setting, which has a history of problematic treatment towards this population. Finally, adolescents may be coming from differing cultural backgrounds where
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