Don’t let that comment ruin your day. I think he/she was referring to visible health care workers.
I got a chuckle out of the comment because just the other day I was visiting someone at a hospital and couldn’t get over the number of very obese employees. The patients, forget about it. They were huge too.
Some of the biggest were huddled around the corner of the building in 18f temperatures puffing on a cigarette-probably trying to keep their weight down. One was dressed in a johnny, had an IV and was in one of those oversized wheelchairs.
I suspect you work in IT, the legal department or you’re up on the executive floor. Could be you’re a physician. Other than that it’s hard to find a group that is thin. Of course your hospital may be an exception.
<< I suspect you work in IT, the legal department or you’re up on the executive floor. Could be you’re a physician. Other than that it’s hard to find a group that is thin. Of course your hospital may be an exception. >>
Actually, I am a front-line health care provider, I’m 59 years old, and come in at 5’8” and 175 pounds. I am in far greater condition than most my age, as are those I work with. I’m not saying that we have no obese people working at my hospital — as a not-for-profit organization, you wouldn’t BELIEVE some of the people that we are FORCED to hire — but as a group, I maintain that health care workers are in FAR better shape than MOST of our professional contemporaries.