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00-pound man tests the limits of a doctor’s compassion
02-27-2014, 09:39 AM
Some sick people actually think that it's not their duty to care for their health, because that's what doctors are for. Then when they inevitably get sick they get angry at doctors who do their best to help them. And in our cherished "democracy" both these sick persons and doctors have a similar say in the future of a country.
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02-27-2014, 09:48 AM
Health insurance should be like home insurance. If you smash holes in your walls you are response for the repair. Not us and not the system.
This is why we are so fucked.
I tell people to give up bread and processed grains to see if that will Alleviate their myriad of symptoms and the common response is, "but I love bread."
Ok, so you love bread more than you hate being sick and tired?
It's really just like drug addicts. It's not even that they are uneducated it's that they are ignorant.
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02-27-2014, 11:11 AM
I'm conflicted on this. While I don't necessarily think the doctors should be making comments in the presence of the patient (we can at least be professional), I also don't think the land whale has any reason to feel hurt. Let's face it, at a certain point, you know you're getting fat and something isn't working. That's when you get help! Not when you're a 600 lb blob of lard.
I hate the guys entitlement/lawsuit comment. The ADA should be rewritten to protect truly disabled people.
There's fat because you're disabled and disabled because you're fat. Huge difference.
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00-pound man tests the limits of a doctor’s compassion
02-27-2014, 11:20 AM
I'm glad the article was written. I don't think people realize how hard it is to help people of that size.
There was a lady who was really big in our neighborhood. She had a lot of problems and it seems like the ambulance was at her house on a weekly basis. You knew when she had to be taken to the hospital simply because there would be many vehicles or sometimes two ambulances at her house. You see, it took around 4 to 5 MEN to get her out of the house and put her in the back of the ambulance.
Now you have 4 to 5 men working on one person while they could be helping others. Then you see the guy, in the article, start saying how he is entitled to this and that. Of course he doesn't realize it takes 2 to 3 times more people to give him those services compared to an average sized person.
It reaks of entitlement. I am glad he heard those things being said about him. There seems to be a common theme with these really obese people. They expect everyone to wait on them. Just watch, if you can, a show about 500 pounders getting stomach surgery because they can't stop putting food in their mouths. Almost all of them acted like victims and expected others to take care of them.
I say let them die if that is the case. I know it sounds cruel but they have no problem sucking the life out of others in order to be served. I think allowing them to be victims is actually hurting them far more than leaving them to their own devices. Once they realize no one will serve them they will lose the weight.
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00-pound man tests the limits of a doctor’s compassion
02-27-2014, 12:13 PM
I wouldn't be averse to just ignoring people like these and denying care.
It sounds cruel, but these people are beyond help. 600 lbs is unacceptable. They should be publicly shamed and made to feel bad.
The only way these people would change is if the ambulance shows up, the EMTs look at the person, and respond with a, "Nope too big!"
Then leave. I'd be willing to wager that they would immediately stop their habits.
I know a doctor who has turned land whales away from his office on the basis they never change. Diet, exercise, but why is your blood pressure so high?
Yeah it's because of the McDonalds you eat three times a week.
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02-27-2014, 12:46 PM
One of my friends used to be a bariatric EMT. They used him cause he was huge and strong. The reasons he quit was how depressing it is and because of their attitudes.
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02-27-2014, 01:49 PM
Hope fully the medical community is coming to the realisation that there is only one thing they can do for the chronically obese. And that is prescribe one of the bariatric surgeries. It's heartening, but misleading, when you hear of an obese person who has slimmed down due to his own will power and dieting/exercise. For every one person like this there are 1000's more who have no statistical hope of achieving something similar. Not that it cannot be done. of course it can. One of Newtons laws says so. It's juts that outside of actual internment the person will never stop eating.
IMO obese patients should be given an ultimatum. One of the more extreme bariatric surgeries (where they cut away most of the stomach, leaving it the size of a golfball or two), or a denial of care, including at the ER.
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02-27-2014, 01:56 PM
A 600 lb. person surely can't walk to get food by himself. There must also be an accomplice in a crime of this gravity (pun intended).
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02-27-2014, 02:00 PM
They all have enablers! The fatties cry and complain about food and guilt weak minded people into feeding (pun intended) a bad habit.
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