Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don't See Past the Fat
Let me save you the time: it&#x27;s an article pandering to fat people without any substance and really dishonest arguments.<p>The complaint is that doctors tell fat people to lose weight when they come in with symptoms that match the symptoms of being very overweight. If you go to the doctor with knee pain and you are drastically overweight, the most likely answer is that the knee pain is from being overweight. The doctor is going to tell you to lose weight. This doesn&#x27;t mean they&#x27;re <i>dismissing</i> that it might be something else, which is evident by the example in the article where the root cause was also found.<p>I had to stop reading at the point where the quoted a doctor as saying<p>&gt;doctors and hospitals have become risk-averse because they fear their ratings will fall if too many patients have complications<p>followed by<p>&gt;A recent survey of more than 700 hip and knee surgeons confirmed Dr. Yates’s impressions. Sixty-two percent said they used body mass index scores as cutoffs for requiring weight loss before offering surgery.<p>This survey doesn&#x27;t confirm that surgeries are refused for the fear of lower ratings. It confirms that doctors have a BMI cuttoff for surgery. Saying that there shouldn&#x27;t be a limit <i>somewhere</i> is beyond stupid, meaning this survey is pointless. And it&#x27;s frankly tremendously disrespectful towards doctors - they have BMI cutoffs for the sake of the patient&#x27;s life. The risk of complications is extremely real and doctors don&#x27;t want a high risk of literally killing someone to resolve a knee pain that, while crappy, is better than dying. And they&#x27;re not even asking patients to live the rest of their life with that knee pain - only long enough they can lose weight and not have such drastically dangerous odds from the surgery.<p>This article is garbage.