My experience lately has been that a nurse or assistant of some sort does all the usual checks, fills the information in on a form, which the doctor then reads before coming into the room to ask about my concerns.

I’ve been fortunate enough to generally felt listened to by my doctors, but again and again, the “weight conversation” has been clunky and unhelpful on its own. I think doctors are scared to bring it up because they don’t know how to handle the non-medical side of obesity.