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 ...

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] You would be surprised of some of the experiences that my patients have had in healthcare. I had a patient who went to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain. We'll call her Amy.Now, typically imaging is done to figure out the cause of abdominal pain, but Amy, she didn't have any imaging done, and she was discharged home. She followed up with me the next day, and after reviewing her blood work, I ordered a CT scan, which should have been done in the emergency room, and I ...