UCLA medical school had been condemned by a renowned Harvard doctor for forcing students to take a 'fat-positivity' class. All first year medical students at UCLA are required to read an essay by Marquisele Mercedes, a self-proclaimed 'fat liberationist' who claims that 'fatphobia is medicine's status quo' and that is a 'hopeless endeavor.'Mercedes's article, titled 'No Health, No Care: The Big Fat Loophole in the Hippocratic Oath,' is on the required reading list for the mandatory Structural Racism and Health Equity course.
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