"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Obese people are to be denied some surgical procedures in a bid to cut costs in the NHS.
Three Suffolk primary care trusts have ruled patients with a body mass index (BMI) over 30 will not get operations like hip and knee replacements.
A person of average weight would have an BMI of between 18.5 and 24.9.
That means a 5 foot 4 inch woman weighing 180 pounds would not qualify. They're not targeting morbid obesity, they're targeting most people in the knee-replacement age range. posted by Sydney on
11/23/2005 06:57:00 AM
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