Doctors out here treating fat patients like shyt ... funny but fukked up article

[Chip Skylark]

He said: ‘Let me cut to the chase. You need to lose weight.’”

I died

 

[jwinfield]

“He came to the door of the exam room, and I started to tell him my symptoms,” Ms. Nece said. “He said: ‘Let me cut to the chase. You need to lose weight.’”

Nurse: So what's the diagnosis

 

[concise]

The patient, a 46-year-old woman, suddenly found it almost impossible to walk from her bedroom to her kitchen. Those few steps left her gasping for breath. Frightened, she went to a local urgent care center, where the doctor said she had a lot of weight pressing on her lungs. The only thing wrong with her, the doctor said, was that she was fat.

“I started to cry,” said the woman, who asked not to be named to protect her privacy. “I said: ‘I don’t have a sudden weight pressing on my lungs. I’m really scared. I’m not able to breathe.’”

“That’s the problem with obesity,” she said the doctor told her. “Have you ever considered going on a diet?”

It turned out that the woman had several small blood clots in her lungs, a life-threatening condition, Dr. Kahan said.

For many, the next step in a diagnosis involves a scan, like a CT or M.R.I. But many extremely heavy people cannot fit in the scanners, which, depending on the model, typically have weight limits of 350 to 450 pounds.


Scanners that can handle very heavy people are manufactured, but one national survey found that at least 90 percent of emergency rooms did not have them. Even four in five community hospitals that were deemed bariatric surgery centers of excellence lacked scanners that could handle very heavy people. Yet CT or M.R.I. imaging is needed to evaluate patients with a variety of ailments, including trauma, acute abdominal pain, lung blood clots and strokes.

When an obese patient cannot fit in a scanner, doctors may just give up. Some use X-rays to scan, hoping for the best. Others resort to more extreme measures. Dr. Kahan said another doctor had sent one of his patients to a zoo for a scan. She was so humiliated that she declined requests for an interview

This is unfortunate and nothing to laugh about. Physicians are supposed to leave their biases behind and try to figure out what is wrong.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

fukk them fatties

 

[Blessings]

Nurse: So what's the diagnosis

lmaooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[bx.lion]

If i spent nearly a decade of my life in school i wouldn't waste a minute consoling a fatty about their health issues.

 

[Lamar Givens]

Being fat/overweight is not a disease unless you have a thyroid condition that legitimately makes it difficult for people to lose weight.

I was 330 at one time and I went all the way down to 200. At no time did my physician treat me any different; however he was very blunt about the reality of diabetes, heart attack, sleep apnea, etc.

A lot of physicians deal with patients who have no desire to take control of their health and believe that 1, 2, or 3 pills a day will allow them to continue to live lazy and irresponsible concerning their health. So I can see why some doctors take the attitude of, “Hey, if you don’t give a f... then I don’t give a f... either. Let’s stop wasting each other’s time.”



People need to take control of their own health because it’s no one else’s responsibility at the end of the day.

 

[Hugs]

 

[Mac Brown]

The food in America is poisoning the genetically defencient

 

[Collateral]

The one thing I hate about fat people is that they never want to accept accountability for their situation. And the ones that do are the ones that actually take control and do something about it.

 

[MR. Conclusion]

Dr. Kahan said another doctor had sent one of his patients to a zoo for a scan.

Yo wtf yo thats all types of messed up

*edit shyt got me dying tho

 

[ThaEruditious]

Yoooooooooo, this shyt was written so snarkily.

 

[ThaEruditious]

When an obese patient cannot fit in a scanner, doctors may just give up. Some use X-rays to scan, hoping for the best. Others resort to more extreme measures. Dr. Kahan said another doctor had sent one of his patients to a zoo for a scan. She was so humiliated that she declined requests for an interview.

nikka! I fukkIN CANNOT!!!

 

[broller]

That zoo part...

 

[killacal]

It’s acceptable to have any addiction except for to food when that’s the only thing you really need.


Think about it...

Food is fuel
If you don't do shyt active you shouldn't be eating
Stop eating to eat
Only in America is that thing