42. You are Sick Enough & Your Eating Disorder is Valid with Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED

Join Meg as she interviews Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani about why you are sick enough to seek treatment, and how medical professionals often unintentionally invalidate our eating disorders with outdated science and training, thin worship and medical fat phobia. Listen to hear Dr. G's advice on how to break free from the "I'm not sick enough" mindset. About Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani: Dr. Gaudiani is an eating disorders expert physician and the Founder and Medical Director of the Gaudiani Clinic. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard, medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, and her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale. In 2008, she was one of the founding team members of the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders at Denver Health. After seven great years there, she left as its Medical Director to pursue her vision of outpatient care, founding the Gaudiani Clinic. During her years at ACUTE, Dr. Gaudiani became a nationally recognized internist for her work on the medical complications of eating disorders. Dr. Gaudiani’s book, Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders During the more than seven years that she’s helped run the highest level of care in the country, providing definitive medical stabilization to critically ill patients with eating disorders, Dr. Gaudiani discovered that there are hardly any doctors who understand eating disorders. Even when people have a great mental health and nutritional outpatient team, they almost always lack a medical doctor in their community who has the expertise, time, and interest in providing superb care that motivates recovery and wellness. This may mean that patients have been seen by a physician who doesn't understand the nuances of an eating disorder, either from the emotional or the physical perspective. It may mean that eating disorder treatment professionals have no physician backup to support patients while they continue doing vital outpatient therapeutic work. It may