Posted on 11/23/2005, 4:25:49 AM by Mount Athos
FAT people will no longer be given hip and knee replacements on the NHS in East Suffolk. GPs and consultants have agreed not to refer anyone classed as obese to a specialist until they have lost weight to help to save the area’s primary care trusts £47.9 million.
A team of GPs and senior consultants from Ipswich Hospital spent nine months investigating ways to address the trusts’ financial problems and drew up a list of criteria that must be met before treatment for conditions such as varicose veins and glue ear.
The team agreed that patients with a body mass index of 30 or more — recognised by the World Health Or- ganisation as obese — should not be referred to surgeons for hip and knee replacements.
In Britain, a fifth of men and a quarter of women are estimated to be obese. A 5ft 10in man weighing 15st 3lb and a 5ft 3in woman weighing 12st 7lb would be classed as obese by this measure.
Dr Brian Keeble, the Director of Public Health for Ipswich PCT and the leader of the team that devised the guidlines, said: “Patients who are overweight and obese do worse after operations. Lighter people tend to do better in terms of hip replacements not failing.”
Next they won't treat ugly people, but they will always treat stupid people.
This is an outrage. They are rationing medical care.
They will just get scooters like they do in the US.
So they are no longer providing medical care for disorders that are caused by unhealthy lifestyles.
Okay. When are they going to stop providing medications to those who get AIDS and other venereal diseases?
Ohhhhh...that would be "bad" and "mean-spirited," wouldn't it? Riiiiiight.
Hey, they gotta cut corners to pay for all the drug addicts and AIDS-infected gays somehow!
What is that? 153lbs. and 127 lbs.? So unless your skinny as a rail, you won't get anything.
OK, I had to look up "glue ear":
http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23068746/
5ft 10in man weighing 15st 3lb --- 258 lbs
a stone is 14 pounds, not 10
I know a woman in Canada who has leukemia.
Want to know how the health care system is treating her?
..They gave her a companion dog and some pills.
Guess that leaves Hillary......nah, too easy.
Do you mean to tell us that we can build things like this, but we can't build a heavy-duty knee?!?!
What? Please explain!
After conversion, I noticed that this is discrimination against men, in addition to discrimination against overweight people.
5ft 10in man weighing 15st 3lb -- 258 lbs
and a 5ft 3in woman weighing 12st 7lb -- 211 lbs.
Isn't a 211 lb woman who is only 5 ft 3 in more overweight, than a 5 ft 10 in man, who weighs 258 lbs?
The whole thing is totally preposterous.
Let the fat people just suffer and die.
What is next?! Just think how much money they can save, if they just kill all the disabled people, as Hitler tried to do.
"a stone is 14 pounds, not 10"
I went to a conversion site, where it said it's 17.
But if it's only 14, that means even moderately overweight people don't get medical care.
" then they need to get off the sofa and quit spooning off the rest of us. "
And how do you know that the "fat person" is not the one who is paying the most in taxes and isn't getting anything out of the medical care?
a stone is 14 pounds.
The 5'10" man = 213 pounds
5'3" woman = 175 pounds
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