I was watching a British documentary about hospitals/ambulances now needing to accommodate more obese people (the link to the video is here and I recommend watching it if you have the time, since it's an hour long).
Many of the paramedics, nurses, and doctors are lovely when they're dealing with the fat patients, but to be honest I have no idea how they do it. These patients eat themselves into a disability, have to be helped with everything, moan and complain constantly and are a drain on health care. I'm probably heartless, but my ideal scenario for health care would be to give fat people one chance to lose weight. If they don't do it, they have to pay for all health-related expenses out of their own pocket.
Anyone have any thoughts about the demand fat people put on hospitals? I've heard plenty of horror stories from nurses and paramedics who have to deal with them and physically carry them around, and I was wondering if anybody had any similar experiences or general thoughts.
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[–] 11852558? 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago
I have heard stories about nurses and EMTs becoming seriously injured just from having to lift these sacks of shit. It can end their careers.
[–] AlanTuringsGhost 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
No doubt fats think they are entitled to the healthy spines of hot/fit EMTs.
[–] 11858588? 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
There was an episode of My 600 lb Life where the obeast was being carried out of her home by 6 or 7 firemen and was giggling and saying shit like "Can you carry me over your heads like Cleopatra? Tee hee!" and just having a great time while those men looked like they were in pain.
[–] callthehambulance ago
I've seen it happen. I work in an allied healthcare profession and saw a ham try and get out the treatment chair, go over, and gram a colleagues arm on the way down. My colleague's shoulder was FUBARd and she was off work for weeks.