• irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOP
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    2 months ago

    The meme isn’t about that, I’ve read stories of some doctors refusing to perform surguries to overweight people, but other doctors doing the surgery anyway.

    The same way a lot of women get told stuff is just from their period by doctors.

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      2 months ago

      Look. Shitty doctors exist, but when 1/3 of the US is overweight, there are underlying issues that need addressing. I only hear horror stories when an addict, alcoholic, or overweight individual in my life is feeling insecure or defensive about a prognosis. Too many people deflect and it’s enabling a much larger issues. Our basic instincts are being exploited.

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        2 months ago

        America’s obesity epidemic is a function of our car culture. This is the only country on God’s green Earth that feels putting in sidewalks is a moral failure.

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      2 months ago

      When talking about obese individuals, the fat very easily gets in the way of surgery. Compared to a healthy patient the risk of complications during surgery is much greater and really not worth chancing it (most if the time)

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      My mother had a doctor that refused to move forward with knee surgery because she was so depressed and refused to do therapy because it hurt her knee so much to move around.

      I guess I understand, why go through the trouble of surgery if she’s just going to be a bummer couch potato afterwards and never change her ways?

      But at least she’d be a bummer couch potato whose knee didn’t threaten to give out on her whenever she tried to do laundry in the basement.

      If I take my car in for new brake pads, don’t refuse me service because the transmission is on its way out.

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      2 months ago

      I’m guessing that’s under the US health system, where doctors are incentivised to only perform surgeries with a low risk of complications

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        2 months ago

        What countries medical system encourages risky surgeries? As far as I’m aware “reducing risk” is most of the game in medicine