I am a registered nurse. I live in Canada, the obesity rate here is a bit lower (but still unacceptably high) than in the USA, but most of the health care professionals I work with are thin.  There are a lot of fatasses, sure, and even a few planet sized porkers, but I would definitely say that the majority of my colleagues are thin. The fat ones are fucking useless. They do the bare minimum amount of work and their favorite exuse for leaving a ton of work for others to do is "I didn't have time", which is absolute bullshit because they spend the majority of their shift just sitting in their ass. One thing about health care professionals is that those of us who are thin are always the most hardcore shitlords out there.  Bring up the topic of obesity around any thin Doctor, nurse, physiotherapist, dietician, etc and there's a pretty good chance they'll tell you some entertaining stories mocking the fat patients they had to work with. The nurses I work with who are fat know that this is how their thin colleagues are, too. Whenever we start talking about obesity in the presence of a fat health care worker, they always just shut right the fuck up because they know there's no debating about it.