There may be some of that, but there is also lazy medicine. I have several woman in my life that are above average weight/BMI for reasons that have nothing to do with their lifestyle or habits. One is a body builder. The other had their metabolism destroyed by a drug treatment. Both often receive the same, useless, non-actionable advice from most doctors they meet: exercise more, lose weight, eat less.

This would be reasonable advice for most people, but falls flat when a doctor completely ignores a patients circumstances.

This kind of lazy advice is commonly given to women, and more so to women of color. As a result, I’m very leery of describing all cases of disgruntled patients “sensitivity”.