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Don t Weigh Me cards designed to empower people to skip the scale at the doctor s office

Ginny Jones(OMAHA, Neb.) Dani Donovan, a 30-year-old woman from Omaha, Nebraska, said she spent the better part of a decade going to different doctors to seek help for chronic pain. At each visit, according to Donovan, she would be told she needed to lose weight, a discouraging cycle that she said kept her from seeking more medical care. "I was in pain and all doctors would say to me is that I need to lose weight," Donovan told "Good Morning America," noting the experience would often lead her down a cycle of binge eating due to her frustration and pain." "I felt like doctors wouldn't listen to me and it was making me not go to want to see the doctors." That changed in December, according to Donovan, when she went to a new primary care physician. While in the waiting room at that doctor's office, Donovan saw what are called "Don't Weigh Me" cards, business cards that are designed for a patient to hand to a nurse or doctor. T

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