Obese people are in big trouble: In England, three health groups said their doctors won't operate on too-heavy patients to replace hips and knees, apparently on the theory that they'll just go out and put too much weight on them all over again...
Obese people are in big trouble: In England, three health groups said their doctors won't operate on too-heavy patients to replace hips and knees, apparently on the theory that they'll just go out and put too much weight on them all over again. And in New York, it turns out most obese people don't even know they're obese. Three regional healthcare authorities in England's Suffolk area say they will no longer do surgeries on people with a body mass index over 30. It's impossible to tell whether this is the start of a "weight test" for certain procedures or an isolated effort to ration costly surgery by restricting it to those most likely to benefit.
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