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To: NRx
Heavy,long time,smokers are not good surgical risks.Neither are those who are substantially overweight.
6 posted on 10/18/2017 6:41:54 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Agree but that’s a decision for a surgeon and the patient. Not the government.


8 posted on 10/18/2017 6:45:18 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Heavy,long time,smokers are not good surgical risks.
Neither are those who are substantially overweight.

Some Cardiothoracic Surgeons believe that the 1 year mortality rate, post Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, is so effected by smoking that in one year the mortality is the same than if they didn't have surgery at all.

Persistent Smokers seem to die at same rate
whether they had surgery or not.
If this is true, why induce the severe suffering of
surgery at all, if it's not going to make any difference?

Just Say’n

14 posted on 10/18/2017 6:50:52 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Gay State Conservative

True, but that should be a personal decision based on risk/benefit.


21 posted on 10/18/2017 7:05:25 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Gay State Conservative
Heavy,long time,smokers are not good surgical risks.Neither are those who are substantially overweight.

Therefore, kill them.

24 posted on 10/18/2017 7:08:13 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Heavy,long time,smokers are not good surgical risks.Neither are those who are substantially overweight. “

If I were a doctor or hospital owner I would refuse them service.

However, if a government entity can deny service for any reasonable cause, it won’t be long before they deny service for political reasons.

That’s a very high risk proposition for White People.


36 posted on 10/18/2017 7:21:10 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Heavy,long time,smokers are not good surgical risks.Neither are those who are substantially overweight.

That's the thing!

I have a 400 plus pound friend who had to get his knees replaced but still can't walk. It's all the doctor's fault.

37 posted on 10/18/2017 7:21:13 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Heavy,long time,smokers are not good surgical risks.Neither are those who are substantially overweight. <<

and your point being?.....


79 posted on 10/19/2017 9:40:08 AM PDT by M-cubed
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