"Obese is offensive" So I'm a nursing student and we were discussing mobility in lab today. If your walking with a patient and they fall your supposed to do kind of like a slow slide down with them to the ground. Hard to describe easy to see. Anyway, I asked if we should still do this with obese patients since in my mind i would rather let them hit the floor then hurt me. I was told not to use that word in the hospital or elsewhere as people find it offensive and to use bariatric instead.  Another battle lost to the fatties as obesity seems to have gone down the same road as retarded.