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As a family medicine resident doctor, it is a privilege to care for people across their lifespans, from pregnancy and newborn care until end-of-life. Practicing from a weight-neutral and HAESⓇ framework allows me to truly partner with my patients to achieve their health goals, by supporting them and offering evidence-based strategies to prevent and treat chronic health conditions, all of which have nothing to do with weight or weight-loss. As a family doctor, I specialize in treating chronic conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes. These are also the conditions that are blamed the most on body size, in direct contradiction to available research and basic tenants of physiology. I have found that many patients have a great deal of shame around these diagnoses, having been told for years by doctors that they are to blame for these chronic health conditions. My goal is to support my patients in unlearning this shame and blame and help them feel empowered to manage their health conditions with the medications and screening tests we know will help prevent long-term complications like kidney failure, heart disease and strokes. The inability for fat patients to receive this evidence-based care due to medical anti-fatness and weight stigma is nothing short of a human rights violation, and deeply intersects with other systems of oppression. Providing HAESⓇ-informed primary care is a joy and privilege, and I look forward to continuing to learn and improve how I do this.