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More for you and sports at half past six. goodbye for me. thank you very much. a charity is calling for all medical students to receive better training about eating disorders after a survey suggested that patients did not receive adequate care. around 1.25 million people in the uk have an eating disorder, according to the charity beat, but there are currently no requirements for medical schools to provide any teaching in this area. it added that over two thirds of the people they surveyed who have an eating disorder felt their gp did not understand how to help them. zoe conway has this report. when you restrict your food intake, it numbs you. and so anorexia is a functional illness, it s a way to cope with difficult feelings or beliefs. joss had anorexia for five years. she says it was a way of coping with the sexual abuse she suffered as a child by a nonfamily member. i was quite skeletal. ....
Understand how to help them. zoe conway has this report. when you restrict your food intake, it numbs you. and so anorexia is a functional illness, it s a way to cope with difficult feelings or beliefs. joss had anorexia for five years. she says it was a way of coping with the sexual abuse she suffered as a child by a nonfamily member. i was quite skeletal. i was just very depressed. i would pace around the house all day. my day was just pretty much filled with numbness. i couldn t really take in much information. it was all about just like the exercise i was doing, the food i was eating. her family knew nothing of the abuse. the illness came out of the blue. was this an incredible shock, walking into this house, just feels like such a loving family environment? it was a complete shock. you think these things happen to other people, not to you. and yeah, we just never ....
Saw it coming at all. when suddenly they say, you know, ifjoss can put on so much weight a week, and i was doing the maths and i was thinking, well, to get to the target weight, that s going to be three months. and you had this sudden moment, this isn t a quick fix. this is something we are living with. joss feared for her own life. she grew increasingly desperate. i sought out my gp s number of her own home and ijust rang her at her home one evening and kind of put my foot down and said look, i m really scared for my life. and i really need you to advocate for me, to fight for me, because the services just kept putting me on waiting lists and just kept telling me your weight is not low enough or we don t have room for you. the charity beat says medical schools need to do a betterjob of training doctors. at the moment, two thirds of people who go to their gp report that they don t get the referral for assessment that they should get, that the nice guidelines say they should get. so the ....
They want to do a good job. but the system that is letting them down and eating disorder patients down is the medical training establishment. the general medical council says that eating disorders are a complex, high risk area of practice that should be covered in every doctor s education. we ve asked medical schools to develop a common approach to improve how eating disorders are taught at medical school. joss has turned her life around, she is now working for the nhs as a psychologist. i am very, very proud ofjoss. she has come so far. you know, she has accomplished so much. i don t know how to put it into words, really. we really are enormously proud of her. zoe conway, bbc news. for details of organisations which offer advice and support with eating disorders, go online to bbc.co.uk/actionline. ....
Putting me on waiting lists and just kept telling me your weight is not low enough or we don t have room for you. the charity beat says medical schools need to do a betterjob of training doctors. at the moment, two thirds of people who go to their gp report that they don t get the referral for assessment that they should get, that the nice guidelines say they should get. so the medical professionals, they want to do a good job. but the system that is letting them down and eating disorder patients down is the medical training establishment. the general medical council says that eating disorders are a complex, high risk area of practice that should be covered in every doctor s education. we ve asked medical schools to develop a common approach to improve how eating disorders are taught at medical school. joss has turned her life around, she is now working for the nhs as a psychologist. i am very, very proud ofjoss. she has come so far. ....