“health service BOSSES have warned”
Coming to clinic near you very soon.
This is the NHS. It certainly seems to be suffering itself. Maybe this is symbolic... maybe it is too fat to be worth saving, as in bureaucrats.
If one is rich enough in Britain, one doesn’t HAVE to go to the NHS, surely? Are there still independent doctors in Britain that serve a self pay trade?
At hospitals and doctors offices all over this country right now as a condition of Obamacare, people are asked if they smoke, if they say yes, they are asked whether they want information to help them stop smoking and if they want access to nicotine replacement. Those questions are documented in the permanent record as yeses or noes.
This info will be used to determine future health care services, mark my words.
So say you will take any help they have, so it can be documented. And if you are a minimal smoker, just a few a day, you will have to decide how you are going to answer these questions for yourself.
Remember to bring a lead injector to ER.
Already at many ORTHO’s in the USA now, if you have knees that need to be replaced because of your weight. I know one of the largest Ortho clinics in Memphis will NOT replace knees of patients 100 lbs over weight. They make them lose weight first or no new knee. Surgery is generally a failure otherwise. As being to much overweight puts to much strain on joints.