Posted on 07/25/2006 1:22:22 PM PDT by neverdem
I wish obesity would obscure the panty lines and cellulite that some people-of-mighty-girth insist on sharing with you through their scanty summer garb.
Stick them in a semi and take it to a port. They can be scanned with the rest of the cargo.
"And as the University of Miami builds a new hospital, it is having to take into account that more than one-third of the patient population will be more than 350 pounds, he said."
I find that hard to believe... 1/3?
Then again, my next door neighbor is probably 400 lbs. I saw her trying to pick some weeds by her driveway the other day. Sadly, it was just before my dinner.
I sent my boys out early the next morning to yank up most of them.
I can at least tell you one thing, and I'm not even a doctor.
Just sounds lazy or incompetent to me.
In diagnosis, the Doctor should try all/any procedures which will work. Just because they want a $500.00 per, 15 minute turnaround in the office, is no reason to sluf diagnosis off on the hospital scanners, then proclaim they are actually doctors.
Hmmmm...so the medical profession is now blaming the patient for its inability to do proper diagnoses. What a crock!
Maybe the medical profession should get off of its professionally fat posterior and start acting as physicians instead of technicians! Or are they just taking their professional cues from "journalists" now?
That is in Miami, so the patients should be expected to be predominantly Hispanic. For whatever reason (genetic, cultural, diet, or whatever) many Hispanics tend to get very heavy as they get into middle age or older.
Years ago my husband knew a mechanic who said there were 2 types. Real mechanics, and parts changers. Real mechanics could figure out what was wrong and fix it. Parts changers could change parts. More and more, the doctors I see are parts changers. You go in, they diagnose you with something they know a pill for and they prescribe a pill. Simple!
susie
Well put! A pet peeve of mine as well.
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It's also hard on joints. It surprising how a bad ankle or knee can improve when you lose 10 or 20 pounds.
"More and more, the doctors I see are parts changers. You go in, they diagnose you with something they know a pill for and they prescribe a pill. Simple! "
And what exactly would you have them do instead? Give you a stern talking to? Yeesh!
You obviously don't know what you are talking about. If you actually worked in the medical profession, you might have a better understanding of some of the difficulty with extremely obese patients. Try doing mammograms on someone with breasts that cannot fit onto the imaging table. There are numerous problems - some more gross than others. And why don't we get real here and talk about how what's within the folds of all that skin. The patients often are unable to access these areas for cleansing due to their own physical limitations - we all have hard to reach spots - even the skinniest of us - and some people can't reach their feet, etc. However, severely obese people have added problems such as the bacteria that can grow in these fleshy areas that remain dark and moist.
I suspect that there is some secret, and illegal, "magic bullet" being used by some of the Hollywood crowd to fight fat.
Perhaps a series of injections that strips away most of a person's body fat in a few weeks. Most likely extremely dangerous, and extremely expensive. Probably needs continual monitoring against horrific side effects, like renal failure.
The result is the "concentration camp look" that has been appearing on the red carpets with increasing frequency.
Well, such secrets rarely stay hidden.
Perhaps actually diagnose something.
susie
I AM NEVER GOING BACK TO BEING FAT.
(Robt, at 148 lbs and 6 ft tall since he was 12 years old) giggles at image of 1/3 patients being over 350 lbs ......)
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