Whose liver are you calling fatty?

Hepatic steatosis, that is.

I really dislike the medical term fatty liver. It sounds pejorative, insulting, and childish. Fatty. Cringe-worthy. And yet there it is on the radiology report we are looking at together, compelling doctor and patient to reckon with a term seemingly loaded with fat shaming and judgement. Fatty liver, found incidentally on an abdominal ultrasound, th…