I would love it if more doctors understood Health at Every Size (HAES) - specifically, the role of weight stigma, largely inflicted by the medical profession, as a barrier to health care and cause of stress-induced illness and shorter lives for many fat people. It would be great if they understood it comprehensively, but even if they just understood that there is no evidence that intentional weight loss improves health outcomes, that would be great.
Understanding that trans people are biologically the sex that we affirm ourselves to be would be great.
Understanding that the boundary between physical and mental illness is political, not scientific, would be great, as well as the role of abuse culture manifested through childhood trauma in causing both, and how widespread PTSD and CPTSD really are.
If you haven't, read everything by Paul Farmer that you can (especially _Infections and Inequalities_ and _Pathologies of Power_.)
Finally, I wish more doctors would treat a patient who does their own research on their own condition the way they'd treat a student they were mentoring, rather than shaming such patients for 'going on the Internet'.
