[iowamark]

adapgted for Washington Post: A morbidly obese patient tests the limits of a doctor’s compassion

[Tax-chick]

Someone in my Weight Watchers meeting once said, "It's hard to take control of what you're eating unless you understand what's eating you.

[AppyPappy]

Why were they giving him 8000 calories a day?

[ErnBatavia]

When he finds out how much Donald weighs, he says that he'll be down to see him "in a while."

I'm on the thin side....last year in the pre-op area waiting to have my gallbladder yanked, the surgeon came by, lifted my "gown" for a quick peek, then turned to my wife and said, "I'm gonna have an easy day today!"

[basil]

He literally dug his grave with his teeth…………poor guy—must have had a very empty life.

[miss marmelstein]

Hmmm...I still fairly slim and I’ve yet to experience a doctor’s compassion - which is why I avoid them and have no paper trail for the government.

[Responsibility2nd]

I talk to Donald between procedures, trying to get a sense of him as a person. He recites a litany of consultants he's seen for his back pain, his headaches, a chronic rash on his ankles, his shortness of breath, his weakness, his insomnia and his fatigue.

"All of them have failed me," he says, adding that the EMS paramedics didn't have the proper ultra-wide, ultra-sturdy gurney to accommodate his body.

Puh-leaze. The soltion is simple. Lose 400 pounds and all your problems will go away.

[Vigilanteman]

Just another example of the type of people ObamaCare is supposed to help. He knows all his rights under the ADA but doesn't know (or care) that the 8,000 calorie meals are what put him in and maintains him in this condition.

Compassion is one thing. Enabling is quite another.

[jiggyboy]

I’ll say it again, whoever is feeding these fatsos is committing a crime. In the good old days, not being able to move to get more food because you’re too fat was its own cure.

[COUNTrecount]

Donald had to have had a “feeder”, someone who gave him the 8000 per day diet, since he obviously couldn’t get out and shop or cook for himself.

THAT person is complicit in Donald’s death, as is Donald himself.

Let’s drop the PC rhetoric and assign blame where it should be.

[nascarnation]

There was a story here locally about a 500 lb high school freshman.

The amount of eating necessary to achieve that must be phenomenal, no?

[Svartalfiar]

"The Americans with Disabilities Act says that they should have the proper equipment to handle me, the same as they do for anyone else," he says indignantly. "I'm entitled to that. I'll probably have to sue to get the care I really need."

While I don't know his whole story (there are a few legitimate people with issues that cause obesity), I find it hard to feel much sympathy for him with comments like this, or when he's eating 8,000 calories per day. Even MREs don't have that much (cold weather rations have 4500 cals for the whole day)

[apillar]

I don’t think a “normal” person can get that fat. I’ve known people who huge meals and pure junk food constantly and got fat, but most would eventually top out at 250 or 300lb’s and then they seemed to hit a equilibrium where their bodies would burn as much as they ate and they wouldn’t gain or lose. I think most people are like that. But there seems to be a group where they never hit the equilibrium and just keep gaining and gaining.

[Born to Conserve]

You always hear about people who are so fat they can’t get out of bed. Who brings them their food?

[Count of Monte Fisto]

surviving on disability checks

There is the root of the problem right there.

[GeronL]

Nowhere in this adaption is there mention of his seeing a weight-loss specialist.

"The Americans with Disabilities Act says that they should have the proper equipment to handle me, the same as they do for anyone else," he says indignantly. "I'm entitled to that. I'll probably have to sue to get the care I really need."

I vaguely remember a fat DUmmie who sounded like this.

[2ndDivisionVet]

He’s got to be much more than 600lbs, based on this article. I’m around 340lbs and none of that nonsense even comes close to applying to me. I’ve known 500-600lb guys and it doesn’t apply to them, either. I’m thinking this man is much closer to 1,000lbs or more.