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Penn Doctor Regrets Fat Jokes
 
  by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/28/11 3:14 pm | updated: 10/28/11 3:14 pm
 
Have you heard the one about the University of Pennsylvania orthopedic surgeon who does fat jokes about overweight patients? True story. Doctor John Kelly writes a humor column and threw some jokes in that got some hot water with Penn and obesity bias advocates. Dr. Kelly intended no harm when he quipped, "You should worry about performing surgery on the supersized if there is a comma in your patient's body weight." Or if a patient "wears a wristwatch on his finger," or "has more chins than a Chinese phone book."

Kelly included 30 one-liners in the trade journal article he published in Outpatient Surgery Magazine. Kelly is a respected physician known for corny jokes and stand-up comedy.

Penn issued a statement saying his "comments do not in any way reflect" the health system's views.
 
 
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