Moral judgment and Stigmatization are common in our society [
[1]
], and health care professionals are no different [
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
]. Patients who trigger moral judgment are often patients in which the medical condition
is perceived as controllable by the patient (obese patients, smokers and others) and
physicians occasionally use shaming and stigmatization toward them, seemingly with
good intentions as they hope to encourage them to better health [
[2]
,
[4]
]. However, studies suggest counterproductive consequences [
[2]
,
[4]
,
[6]
]. In this study, we attempted to evaluate how common is this phenomenon, and if there
is truly a correlation between the amount of bedside carbohydrates and glycemic control.Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: August 23, 2019
Accepted:
August 16,
2019
Received:
August 13,
2019
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