EveryBODY Deserves to be Treated with Dignity | Jen McLellan | TEDxABQ

Maybe you're so big you should be on oxygen. That's what a doctor said to me as I struggled to breathe. Had she just looked at my chart, she would have seen I'd recently been cleared to walk 5ks.That's the equivalent of 45 times around a baseball diamond. But she didn't look. She just saw one number, my BMI, body mass index.And in that moment, all I heard her say was, "You don't deserve to breathe." That day, I became a statistic. One I'd spent years trying to prevent. Because when people are made to feel s ...