Why the long face? Obese treated like horses.

[Kelemvor]

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEno...ews/idUSN0433367720070405?feedType=RSS

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro hospitals have been sending obese people to share medical test equipment with horses at the local race track, drawing complaints from activists who say the practice is humiliating.

"When people weigh more than the standard equipment can support they have to be directed to the Jockey Club, which is the only place in Rio where they have the appropriate equipment," a spokeswoman for the Rio state health secretariat said on Wednesday.

Patients needing stomach reduction surgery require a tomography, or multiple X-raying of body sections, which is normally carried out inside a chamber.

Rio hospitals only have standard tomography equipment for people weighing up to 265-287 pounds (120-130 kg). Tomographs used on horses are sturdier and more spacious than common devices.

Rosimere Lima da Silva, head of the Group for Salvaging Self-Esteem and Citizenship of the Obese (Graco), said many patients feel embarrassed to go there.

"The obese patients already suffer from a lot of prejudice and having to be treated where animals are is not helping their self-esteem. Many simply refuse to go," she said.

Graco staged a small protest on Tuesday outside the state legislative assembly and met some legislators to try to oblige hospitals to buy stronger equipment, including stretchers and wheelchairs for the obese, and to authorize more hospitals to perform stomach stapling surgeries.

 

[Kadarin]

Boohoo. If you're that goddamned fat, you and your precious self-esteem deserve it.

 

[spidey07]

Ask any doctor or nurse...

They HATE fat people. Makes their job almost impossible.

 

[leftyman]

I wonder how good animal husbandry is in a third world nation?

 

[bignateyk]

hahahaha. They should start using a forklift to move them around instead of stretchers and wheelchairs. See how that suits their self esteem.

 

[j00fek]

thats what you get if your a big fat slob

 

[Strk]

I'm sure it humiliating, but what exactly are the hospitals supposed to do? It reminds me of articles about how some ambulances are now being built with winches and such so they can lift 500lbs+

 

[Zysoclaplem]

If I were fat I would want to lose weight.

 

[TecHNooB]

Obesity is a disease. It's nobody's fault....

















Oh who am I kidding =/

 

[Pacemaker]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEno...ews/idUSN0433367720070405?feedType=RSS

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro hospitals have been sending obese people to share medical test equipment with horses at the local race track, drawing complaints from activists who say the practice is humiliating.

"When people weigh more than the standard equipment can support they have to be directed to the Jockey Club, which is the only place in Rio where they have the appropriate equipment," a spokeswoman for the Rio state health secretariat said on Wednesday.

Patients needing stomach reduction surgery require a tomography, or multiple X-raying of body sections, which is normally carried out inside a chamber.

Rio hospitals only have standard tomography equipment for people weighing up to 265-287 pounds (120-130 kg). Tomographs used on horses are sturdier and more spacious than common devices.

Rosimere Lima da Silva, head of the Group for Salvaging Self-Esteem and Citizenship of the Obese (Graco), said many patients feel embarrassed to go there.

"The obese patients already suffer from a lot of prejudice and having to be treated where animals are is not helping their self-esteem. Many simply refuse to go," she said.

Graco staged a small protest on Tuesday outside the state legislative assembly and met some legislators to try to oblige hospitals to buy stronger equipment, including stretchers and wheelchairs for the obese, and to authorize more hospitals to perform stomach stapling surgeries.

Guess Shaq (as well as many professional athletes) would have to go to the horse x-ray too.

 

[vi edit]

My wife has worked at one of the most advanced hospitals in the midwest and even they had to consider sending people to the zoo to have different types of test performed.

It's usually imaging type stuff - echo & mri's where the signal either isn't strong enough to make it where it needs to go or the tunnels/tables (in the MRI case) aren't big enough to support or hold the person.

It happens here too.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Pacemaker

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEno...ews/idUSN0433367720070405?feedType=RSS

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro hospitals have been sending obese people to share medical test equipment with horses at the local race track, drawing complaints from activists who say the practice is humiliating.

"When people weigh more than the standard equipment can support they have to be directed to the Jockey Club, which is the only place in Rio where they have the appropriate equipment," a spokeswoman for the Rio state health secretariat said on Wednesday.

Patients needing stomach reduction surgery require a tomography, or multiple X-raying of body sections, which is normally carried out inside a chamber.

Rio hospitals only have standard tomography equipment for people weighing up to 265-287 pounds (120-130 kg). Tomographs used on horses are sturdier and more spacious than common devices.

Rosimere Lima da Silva, head of the Group for Salvaging Self-Esteem and Citizenship of the Obese (Graco), said many patients feel embarrassed to go there.

"The obese patients already suffer from a lot of prejudice and having to be treated where animals are is not helping their self-esteem. Many simply refuse to go," she said.

Graco staged a small protest on Tuesday outside the state legislative assembly and met some legislators to try to oblige hospitals to buy stronger equipment, including stretchers and wheelchairs for the obese, and to authorize more hospitals to perform stomach stapling surgeries.

Guess Shaq (as well as many professional athletes) would have to go to the horse x-ray too.

But Shaq is 7' tall. A lot of people decking in at over 300 pounds are like 5' tall. MUCH more dense per inch/foot than many professional athletes. It's a density problem for a lot of imaging equipment.

 

[FoBoT]

that is what socialized medicine will get you, being treated by vets

 

[Pacemaker]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
that is what socialized medicine will get you, being treated by vets

I laughed..... Now my coworkers are giving me the look... thanks.

 

[MisterJackson]

Hey, at least the fat people got some excersize holding a protest! Good for them!