Why The Long Face? Super obese treated like horses.

[abudabit]

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.

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"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


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[BabyHat3R]

HA HA! You have to wait in line with animals to get weighed!

[LastDeadMouse]

Honestly, they're just trying to acomodate people the best they can. Instead of playing the victims, maybe these people should be thinking "Wow, I need to be treated at a race track with equipment designed for horses. I think it's time I lose some weight." A quick story, two Summers ago I was at Six Flags New England and I was too fat to ride the Superman ride. It was really emberassing. It was also a real eye opener for me. I didn't get mad and think the park was humiliating me, I realized that I really needed to lose weight. Now I eat better, exercise more, I'm about 35 pounds lighter, and I feel better both physically and mentally. They should take this as a sign that they need to lose weight, not as an excuse to complain.

[BabyHat3R]

Honestly, they're just trying to acomodate people the best they can. Instead of playing the victims, maybe these people should be thinking "Wow, I need to be treated at a race track with equipment designed for horses. I think it's time I lose some weight." A quick story, two Summers ago I was at Six Flags New England and I was too fat to ride the Superman ride. It was really emberassing. It was also a real eye opener for me. I didn't get mad and think the park was humiliating me, I realized that I really needed to lose weight. Now I eat better, exercise more, I'm about 35 pounds lighter, and I feel better both physically and mentally. They should take this as a sign that they need to lose weight, not as an excuse to complain.

I would post clappy hands for the great post but instead I'll just say "great post."

[Three Hole Puncher]

This happened in the hospital where I work. Our patient scales had a max capacity of 350lbs. and that just didn't cut it for some of the mountains of flab, so they were wheeling them down to the loading dock to weigh them on the 1000 lb. capacity warehouse scale...

the patients were complaining that it was "degrading" to be weighed like bulk cargo. Mind you... they weren't upset about being bulk cargo, just being weighed like it.

[LastDeadMouse]

This happened in the hospital where I work. Our patient scales had a max capacity of 350lbs. and that just didn't cut it for some of the mountains of flab, so they were wheeling them down to the loading dock to weigh them on the 1000 lb. capacity warehouse scale...

the patients were complaining that it was "degrading" to be weighed like bulk cargo. Mind you... they weren't upset about being bulk cargo, just being weighed like it.
Probably the same whales that get electric wheelchairs so they don't need to exert themselves at all and get handicapped parking permits because they're fat.

[Budyzir]

Group for Salvaging Self-Esteem and Citizenship of the Obese

That just cracked me !

[LastDeadMouse]

Graco staged a small protest on Tuesday outside the state legislative assembly

Was it really all that small? el oh el!

[Three Hole Puncher]

Probably the same whales that get electric wheelchairs so they don't need to exert themselves at all and get handicapped parking permits because they're fat.

Here's the story...

About three years back, the upper administration of the hospital(all of which have since "moved on to persue other opportunities" ;) ) decided that the hospital was going to offer specialized bariatric services... "bariatric" for those of you who don't know, means "Great big fat person." So the hospital spends a ton of money buying heavy duty wheelchairs, stretchers, beds, high capacity patient scales, the various lifts, cranes, and block & tackle equipment required to hoist these loads on and off the toilet.

So the hospital spends all this money and starts admitting these bloated whales by the dozen. Fast forward three years... the hospital is operating at about a $2 million-per-year deficit, is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and has been listed by the state as recommended for closure.

The problem...

the administrators who had decided to go bariatric, in their initial calculations, only factored in the amount of staff : patient ratio of care that a normal, non-Jumbo size, human being requires. Whereas, in reality, the helpless, whining fat bastards required nearly three times as much staff care and handling as a normally-proportioned human being.

The result...

three times the staff equaled three times the payroll... which in turn equaled bye-bye administrators and hello red ink on the balance sheet.

We've since abandoned the bariatric program and the heavy duty wheelchairs with the steel-belted radial tires sit idly gathering dust in a storeroom. But the damage has been done, and it looks like it's only a matter of time before the hospital goes under... crushed by the weight of a thousand fat asses.

Where's Mighty Horse when you need him?

[stevethrower]

Did they install these toilets... and not Photoshoped btw...

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[bethm1b]

""drawing complaints from activists who say the practice is humiliating""


I can see why the horses would be humiliated having to be seen with these fat bastards. Where's PETA when you need them?

[MAV]

would they rather be herded into the race track facility, in somewhat of a private environment?

or would they prefer being sent to Port of Entry Weigh Station along side the highway?

if you outweigh a large animal, you should be treated like one.

[stevethrower]

would they rather be herded into the race track facility, in somewhat of a private environment?

or would they prefer being sent to Port of Entry Weigh Station along side the highway?

if you outweigh a large animal, you should be treated like one.

Hello exactly... not like I am svelte or whatever... but if I ever go over like 300lbs I am getting toe attachment for my shotgun gah.

Me 40 lbs ago...

CZUsi5RYmeI

PS thank you to my wife and my dogs for melting the fat off of my fat ass:)

Oh and not a good idea to break into my house...