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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[–] Grunge 0 points 25 points 25 points (+25|-0) ago
A few weeks ago I had to go to the ER. First time in over a decade I even needed a DR for anything.
The one thing I noticed was that there were a lot of fit, hot nurses and this one female doctor is smoking hot. They were so fucking friendly and seemed genuinely happy and very professional. Then there were these 2 obese nurses and you could see the look in their faces like they just hate life, they hate themselves and they hate everything. They were walking around super slow and sulky, you could just feel the difference.
[–] ArcherSaurusRex 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago
They were probably so sulky because they can't help constantly seeing how superior their fit coworkers are.
[–] JustFPH 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
Reminds me of a weight loss success story I saw a while back.
The woman wrote this piece about how she noticed everyone treating her better after she lost a lot of weight, and for a while that pissed her off. But then she started to pay attention, and think about it more, and was like "oh shit, people are being better to me because I'm being better to them". She realized that because she always felt like shit, and felt like shit about herself, she [sometimes]subtly took it out on those around her.
If only more of them would realize this shit.